Alfred Hitchcok - Complotto Di Famiglia (1976) [DVD9 PAL]
Original title Family Plot
Original language English
Country of manufacture United States of America
Year 1976
Duration 120 min
Ratio 1.85: 1
Genre thriller, comedy, mystery
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Subject The Rainbird Pattern, novel by Victor Canning
Interpreters and characters
Karen Black: Fran
Bruce Dern: George Lumley
Barbara Harris: Madame Blanche Tyler
William Devane: Arthur Adamson
Ed Lauter: Joe Maloney
Cathleen Nesbitt: miss Julia Rainbird
Katherine Helmond: Mrs. Maloney
Warren J. Kemmerling: Grandison
Edith Atwater: Mrs. Clay
William Prince: Bishop Wood
Nicholas Colasanto: Constantine
Marge Redmond: Vera Hannagan
John Lehne: Andy Bush
Charles Tyner: Wheeler
Alexander Lockwood: Parson
Martin West: FBI man
Language: English French Italian Spanish Portuguese
Subtitles: English French Italian Spanish Portuguese
The film, which premiered out of competition at the closing of the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, was Hitchcock's last feature.
Hitchcock takes a witty, lightly and elegantly farewell to his audience: the last shot is the close-up of Blanche winking at the viewer. «Hitchcock's cinema is full of metaphorically complicit glances with the viewer, but this was never explicit on a gestural level of image. We had to wait for what is the last shot of a fifty-year filmography to arrive at this sort of declaration of intent, of public confession "
The choice of title was complicated. A few days before the last shoot, in July 1975, a play on words based on the double meaning of family plot was proposed to Hitchcock; that is: family plot (a dramatic plot involving various members of a family) and area in a cemetery (purchased by a family for the burial of their relatives). The director found it sufficiently ambiguous.
