A Blueprint For Murder

Delicate business as Jean Peters, as young stepmother Lynn Cameron, is grilled by police detectives (Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips and Charles Tannen) who have reluctantly concluded she poisoned her stepdaughter, and her brother-in-law Cam (Joseph Cotten) dares not let on that he agrees, in Andrew L. Stone’s A Blueprint For Murder, 1953.

The opening from independent writer, producer and director Andrew L. Stone finds Joseph Cotten racing to the bedside of a niece, meeting Jean Peters as the stepmother, the widow of his late brother then, when the emergency subsides, with his nephew (Freddy Ridgeway), in A Blueprint For Murder, 1953, distributed by 20th Century-Fox.

This is how we learn that the young niece of Joseph Cotten, as visiting businessman “Cam” Cameron, died the evening before after a second unexplained seizure, as we meet his friends, Gary Merrill and Catherine McLeod, as lawyer Fred and freelance reporter Maggie, discussing her father’s earlier death, in A Blueprint For Murder, 1953.