Family Plot

Tongue-in-cheek thriller about two greedy couples’ efforts to get their hands on a family fortune. A bogus medium and her accomplice are hired to find the long-lost heir to the fortune of an ageing woman. Their search is hindered by a pair of sinister kidnappers who are also after the money. This was director Alfred Hitchcock’s last film, based on Victor Canning’s novel The Rainbird Pattern., Hitchcock’s last ever film has a phony psychic and her boyfriend who become entangled with a pair of ingenious serial kidnappers in a light-hearted yet suspenseful romp., Tongue-in-cheek thriller about two greedy couples’ efforts to got their hands on a family fortune. A bogus medium and her accomplice are hired to find the long-lost heir to the fortune of an ageing woman. Their search is hindered by a pair of sinister, murderous kidnappers who are also after the money., A wealthy woman hires an ersatz psychic to help locate her long-lost nephew, who is now heir to a fortune., Thriller which was to be Alfred Hitchcock’s final film. A phoney medium and her boyfriend decide to fleece a distraught widow who wants to find her long-lost nephew., Alfred Hitchcock’s final film was adapted from Victor Canning’s novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who’d been given up for adoption years earlier and who is now heir to a fortune. Blanche’s cohort is “investigator” Lumley (Bruce Dern), who is fully prepared to milk the last dollar out of Julia before locating the long-lost nephew. Meanwhile, we are introduced to elegant kidnappers Adamson and Fran (William Devane and Karen Black). The fates of the two couples are inextricably intertwined by the search for the missing heir., Hitchcock’s last film, a blend of kidnapping, robbery and murder.