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FAMILY PLOT
July 28, 2017  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

TCM, 5:30 a.m. ET

 

The final entry in TCM’s 50 Years of Hitchcock is this 1976 movie that is more comic than most Hitchcock films, and also more reliant on the actors as playfully portrayed characters. Barbara Harris and Bruce Dern play low-level schemers and scammers who uncover and may profit from someone else’s crime – and William Devane and Karen Black play the criminals in question. Notice, in particular, Black, who gets to don a disguise (pictured), during one robbery, that’s essentially an inside joke poking fun at Hitchcock’s long-time obsession with icy blondes.

 
 
 
 
 
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Family Plot is not my favorite Hitchcock film, but as the conclusion to a remarkable career it is perfect. SPOILER: The Last shot of this, the last Hitchcock film, finds his surrogate, a fraudulent trickster, turns to the camera and gives us a knowing wink. Maybe the trickster wasn’t so fraudulent after all...
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