Bloodline (1979)When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set. Director:Terence Young |
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Bloodline (1979)When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set. Director:Terence Young |
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Sir Alec Nichols
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Claudia Mori | ... |
Donatella
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Simonetta Palazzi
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Vivian Nichols
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Maurice Ronet | ... |
Charles Martin
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| Romy Schneider | ... |
Hélène Roffe-Martin
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| Omar Sharif | ... |
Ivo Palazzi
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| Beatrice Straight | ... |
Kate Erling
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Inspector Max Hornung
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| Wolfgang Preiss | ... |
Julius Prager
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Marcel Bozzuffi | ... |
Man in Black
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Pinkas Braun | ... |
Dr. Wal
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Wulf Kessler | ... |
Young Sam Roffe
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Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. It is first determined to be an accident, but Inspector Max Hormung later deduces that Roffe was murdered. Sam's daughter Elizabeth assumes control of the company, and while traveling through Europe she immediately becomes a target as well. Suspicion falls on the Roffe cousins, all of whom want to go public with the company and sell their stock at a huge profit. Since this would be against her father's wishes, Elizabeth rejects their advice and decides to keep the company within the family. As Inspector Hormung investigates the background of the cousins, more attempts are made on Elizabeth's life. Hoping to reveal the guilty party, Hormung is able to connect these attempts to a series of murders on prostitutes, which are recorded on snuff films. Written by alfiehitchie
It seems best to consider Richard Lester's lovely "Robin and Marian" Audrey Hepburn's swansong."Bloodline " is the most distressingly mediocre movie she ever made.
Terence Young had already directed the actress in the excellent thriller "wait until dark" ,a film which compares favorably with Hitchcock's "rear window" .So it was only natural that they teamed up again .
The screenplay is a mess,a disaster ,and it's more complicated than complex.Full of plot holes,of implausibilities (the fabulously rich heiress ,after several murder attempts does not even think of hiring a bodyguard!),and see how Young even copies himself for the last sequence where Hepburn is alone in the house ,of course in the dark,like in the 1967 highly superior effort.
An absurd international cast gives the coup de grâce to the movie: Americans (Ben Gazzara),English (James Mason),Germans (Romy Schneider,Gert Froebe),French (Maurice Ronet) ,Greeks (Irene Pappas),Egyptians (Omar Sharif).All are given lousy parts .They are supposed to be the suspects of a whodunit.