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Release year: 1976

Storyline

Two frauds seeking a woman's heir cross paths with another couple planning a kidnapping scheme.

Top credits

Directors

Alfred Hitchcock

Writers

Cast

Karen Black — Fran
Bruce Dern — George Lumley
Barbara Harris — Blanche Tyler
William Devane — Arthur Adamson

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Did you know

• At one point during filming, Bruce Dern questioned Sir Alfred Hitchcock about why he was cast. Hitchcock replied, "Because Mr. Packinow wanted a million dollars, and Hitch doesn't pay a million dollars." It took Dern a while to realize that "Mr. Packinow" was Al Pacino.

• Cinematographer Leonard J. South once said of working with Sir Alfred Hitchcock on this movie: "He asks what lens you have on the camera, then he looks at the scene and he knows what will appear on the screen. He's rarely wrong, and he never moves the camera without a reason. When it moves, it's because the audience should be looking around with the actors. He's very specific about that."

• To make the cemetery in this movie appear weedy with long grass, the cemetery was paid by the production to let the grass and weeds grow for a whole four months without weeding and maintenance.