Family Plot

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Family Plot, 1976.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Family Plot, 1976.

Adamson (William Devane) and Fran (Karen Black) have just returned their hostage and secured their gigantic diamond ransom, and we learn, as they return home, that they appear to be a redoubtable well-to-do San Francisco couple, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot, 1976.

After the opening in which Blanche (Barbara Harris) communed with a wealthy San Francisco widow, she toys with cabbie George (Bruce Dern), whom we learn is her boyfriend, lying to him in the process, early in director Alfred Hitchcock’s last film, Family Plot, 1976.

Bent San Francisco cabbie George (Bruce Dern), now posing as a lawyer investigating a case, comes to a cemetery, where he discovers the man he’s after appears to be dead, meeting the maybe-creepy caretaker (John Steadman), in Alfred Hitchcock’s last picture, Family Plot, 1976.

Phony psychic Blanche (Barbara Harris) is seeing a routine client (Louise Lorimer) when her cohort, cabbie George (Bruce Dern) appears with a lead on a separate case that could earn them $10,000, director Alfred Hitchcock having fun with it, in Family Plot, 1976.

Veering away from his original story, possibly the most famous image from the picture, silent Karen Black in the shades and blonde wig executes the collection of ransom, details provided by cops, Alan Fudge the chopper pilot, early in Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot, 1976.

A phony psychic takes on a pair of kidnappers in Alfred Hitchcock's last movie Family Plot (1976).