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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Audrey Hepburn | ... | Elizabeth Roffe | |
| Ben Gazzara | ... | Rhys Williams | |
| James Mason | ... | Sir Alec Nichols | |
| Claudia Mori | ... | Donatella | |
| Irene Papas | ... | Simonetta Palazzi | |
| Michelle Phillips | ... | Vivian Nichols | |
| Maurice Ronet | ... | Charles Martin | |
| Romy Schneider | ... | Hélène Roffe-Martin | |
| Omar Sharif | ... | Ivo Palazzi | |
| Beatrice Straight | ... | Kate Erling | |
| Gert Fröbe | ... | Inspector Max Hornung | |
| Wolfgang Preiss | ... | Julius Prager | |
| Marcel Bozzuffi | ... | Man in Black | |
| 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
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Release Date:
29 June 1979 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$12,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Early in the movie the curtains are drawn back in Audrey Hepburn's home and we see a busy downtown street, but later they're drawn back and there is an ocean view. At a board meeting, Romy Schneider is first seen from behind, sitting at the table with her golden hair showing, but as soon as she is seen full-face her hair is all tucked up under a turban. See more »Goofs
When Elizabeth Roffe and Rhys Williams are in the hotel room, she left the bathroom in a nightgown after a night of love, but he is in jacket-and-tie with a overcoat in the arm. See more »Quotes
Rhys Williams: [to Elizabeth Roffe outside of Maxim's in Paris] We're not going to make much of a team if you start acting like a neurotic bitch!See more »
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Network TV version features 40 minutes of additional footage not included in theatrical release. See more »Connections
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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.