Additional information for Family Plot, which has a domestic theatrical release set for April 9, 1976. The film is being distributed by Universal Pictures and has not yet been rated. Family Plot has a total running time of 120 minutes.
PG
Australia
13
Argentina
PG
Singapore
TV-G
USA
PG
UK
12
Iceland
PG
Canada
18
Spain
12
West Germany
15
South Korea
14
Brazil
12
Germany
K-12
Finland
14
Netherlands
120min
Arvet
Finland
Arvet
Sweden
Complot de famille
Canada
Complot de famille
France
Trama macabra
Argentina
Trama macabra
Mexico
Aile Oyunu
Turkey
Arven
Norway
Complot de familie
Romania
Complotto di famiglia
Italy
Családi összeesküvés
Hungary
Deceit
USA
Familiengrab
West Germany
Family Plot - den enes død...
Denmark
Intriga em Família
Portugal
Intryga rodzinna
Poland
La trama
Spain
Missing Heir
USA
Oikogeneiaki synomosia
Greece
Perintö
Finland
Sti skia tou tromou
Greece
Toteye family
Iran
Trama Macabra
Brazil
Yoreshet
Israel
April 09, 1976
USA
July 08, 1976
Australia
July 21, 1976
France
August 06, 1976
Finland
August 14, 1976
Japan
August 16, 1976
Denmark
August 19, 1976
Netherlands
September 09, 1976
West Germany
September 12, 1976
UK
October 14, 1976
Spain
January 13, 1977
Belgium
January 20, 1977
Mexico
November 10, 1977
Portugal
September 03, 1978
Iran
October 18, 1979
Hungary
December 27, 1980
West Germany
November 18, 1999
Germany
March 15, 2006
France
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Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
The story involves a fake psychic, Blanche Tyler (Barbara Harris), and her con artist taxi driver boyfriend, George Lumley (Bruce Dern), who attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guilt-ridden old woman, Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt). Julia, one of Blanche's clients, was responsible for her now-deceased sister giving up a boy for adoption years earlier and now wants to make him her heir. She will pay Blanche $10,000 if he is found.However, the nephew and prospective heir is now a successful jeweler in San Francisco known as Arthur Adamson (Williams Devane), who has a secret and lurid past, having apparently murdered his adoptive parents and faked his own death. With his girlfriend Fran (Karen Black), he has successfully kidnapped an assortment of millionaires and dignitaries, returning them when the ransom, a valuable gemstone, has been delivered, which they hide in their chandelier.Eventually the paths of these two couples cross when Adamson learns that Blanche and George are pursuing him, and he suspects the worst, putting their lives in danger. When George begins to research the history of the missing nephew, he learns about the original name of Adamson which was Edward Shoebridge and he follows the leads to a gas station owner named Moloney (Ed Lauter) who helped Adamson fake his death and covered it up. Adamson then sends Moloney to kill both Blanche and George by pretending that he knows information about the missing nephew and agrees to meet at a remote restaurant in the mountains. Moloney attempts to sabotage the brakes on George and Blanche's car while they wait at the restaurant for Moloney to show up. When he doesn't, they leave and find themselves trapped in their car as it skids town the sloping mountain road. But they manage to survive. Failing this, Moloney attemps to run them down on the road, only to have his own car go over a cliff and crash... killing him.George learns from Moloney's wife about his part in the Edward Shoobridge murder/coverup and learns the alias of Arthur Adamson. While George has to take a shift at driving his taxi, Blanche decides to look for Adamson on her own. Finally tracking down Adamson to his jewelry store which he owns, she goes over to his house where he and Fran are in the process of delivering back another kidnap victim, a wealthy Catholic bishop named Wood, when they are about to pick up their latest ransom.Adamson and Fran trap Blanche in the basement garage of their house when she comes to tell them the good news about the Rainbird inheritance. Seeing that Adamson is a criminal responsible for the kidnappings in the area, Blanche attempts to flee, but they capture her and drug her, and lock her in their secret room in the basement where they keep their captives.A little later, George, learning about Blanche's discovery, heads over to the Adamson's house and after finding nobody home, he notices Blanche's car outside. George sneaks into the house through a basement window. When Adamson and Fran return after collecting another diamond for this latest Bishop Wood ransom, George hides and follows them down into the basement's secret room where he overhears them plotting to kill Blanche. George and Blanche manage to turn the tables on the other couple and succeed in locking them in their own secret room.Afterwards, Blanche is elated when she thinks about how much the reward will be for catching these thieves, until George points out how much more it will be if they could also locate the stolen diamonds. Suddenly, Blanche seems to go into a trance and makes her way to the crystal chandelier on which the diamonds are hanging. George congratulates Blanche for really being a psychic. As George picks up a phone to call the police, Blanche smiles and winks at the camera.
Alfred Hitchcock
Director(s)
Ernest Lehman
Victor Canning
Writer(s)
Alfred Hitchcock
producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
John Williams
Composer(s)
Fran
Karen Black
George Lumley
Bruce Dern
Blanche Tyler
Barbara Harris
Arthur Adamson
William Devane
Maloney
Ed Lauter
Julia Rainbird
Cathleen Nesbitt
Mrs. Maloney
Katherine Helmond
Grandison
Warren J. Kemmerling
Mrs. Clay
Edith Atwater
Bishop
William Prince
Constantine
Nicholas Colasanto
Vera Hannagan
Marge Redmond
Andy Bush
John Lehne
Wheeler
Charles Tyner
Parson
Alexander Lockwood
Sanger
Martin West
Woman in Cafe with Priest (uncredited)
Elisabeth Brooks
Vera's Supervisor (uncredited)
Dee Carroll
Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
Alan Fudge
A.A. Adamson (uncredited)
Richard Hale
Silhouette at Office of Vital Statistics (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
Ida Cookson (uncredited)
Louise Lorimer
Registrar Clerk (uncredited)
Fran Ryan
Old Man in Cemetery (uncredited)
John Steadman
Director(s)
Victor Canning
Writer(s)
producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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