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.