A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Karen Black | ... | Fran | |
| Bruce Dern | ... | George Lumley | |
| Barbara Harris | ... | Blanche Tyler | |
| William Devane | ... | Arthur Adamson | |
| Ed Lauter | ... | Joseph Maloney | |
| Cathleen Nesbitt | ... | 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 | |
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John Lehne | ... | Andy Bush |
| Charles Tyner | ... | Wheeler | |
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Alexander Lockwood | ... | Parson |
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The trickster Madam Blanche Tyler lures the elder millionaire Julia Rainbird that believes she is a spiritualist. After a séance, she discovers that Julia is tormented by her past, when she forced her sister and single mother Harriet to deliver her baby for adoption to avoid a family scandal. Julia promises the small fortune of ten thousand-dollar to Blanche if she finds her nephew and heir of her fortune using her phony powers. Blanche asks her boyfriend George Lumley, who is an unemployed actor working as cab driver, to investigate the whereabouts of Julia's nephew. Meanwhile, the greedy jeweler and collector Arthur Adamson kidnaps wealthy people with his girlfriend Fran to increase his collection of diamonds with the ransom. When George concludes that Arthur Adamson might be the heir of Julia Rainbird, the reckless Blanche gets in trouble with the kidnappers. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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9 April 1976 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$4,490,375 (estimated)Gross USA:
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(1744) (uncredited)
Music by John Darwall
Lyrics by Charles Wesley
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A street sign in this movie reads "Bates Ave". The Bates Motel was the setting for Sir Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). See more »Goofs
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Constantine: When a guy like me gets kidnapped by a woman, he wants her to be twenty-five.See more »
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The Universal logo does not appear anywhere on this film. See more »Soundtracks
Rejoice, the Lord Is King(1744) (uncredited)
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Lyrics by Charles Wesley
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I was with low expectations before watching this because I read a lot of negative reviews that said this was a not a good movie. I only bought it because this was the only missing film in "The Hitchcock Collection". Well, I saw it and I think it is great!It is a light movie, that mixes comedy with suspense and it's an enjoyable surprise. All of the comedy/light movies that Hitchcock made are underrated (see the example of "The trouble with Harry"(1955)) and I can't understand why.This has some scenes that demonstrate the mastery of Alfred Hitchcock, notably the car scene where one couple is inside a moving car with the brakes sabotaged.That scene is so well constructed that you actually can feel like you are in the car... Amazing!I watched in the "Making of" this picture someone saying that, at that time, people knew this would be the last Hitchcock movie it would have been received way better by the audience. I give it 8 of 10 because it's a joyful and great movie.