Family Plot (1976)

Released: 1976-04-09 Duration: 2hr 0min

Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller

Rating 6.7

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There's no body in the family plot.

Overview

Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Additional Info

Budget	$2,000,000.00
Revenue	$7,900,000.00
Original Language	en
Popularity	5.655

Directed By

Alfred Hitchcock

Crew

Screenplay
Ernest Lehman

Novel
Victor Canning

Production Design
Henry Bumstead

Director of Photography
Leonard J. South

Costume Design
Edith Head

Director
Alfred Hitchcock

Producer
Alfred Hitchcock

Original Music Composer
John Williams

Unit Production Manager
Ernest B. Wehmeyer

Production Illustrator
Thomas J. Wright

Second Assistant Director
Wayne A. Farlow

Sound
Robert L. Hoyt

Script Supervisor
Lois Thurman

Production Assistant
Tom Greene

Sound
James R. Alexander

First Assistant Director
Howard G. Kazanjian

Visual Effects
Albert Whitlock

Makeup Artist
Jack Barron

Set Decoration
James W. Payne

Makeup Artist
Doug Kelly

Casting
William Batliner

Hairstylist
Jo Ann Phillips

Editor
J. Terry Williams

TOP CAST

Alfred Hitchcock

Silhouette at Office of Vital Statistics (uncredited)

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