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this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Family plot from 1976, and Frenzy from 1972.
Family Plot is a 1976 American black comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his final directing role.
It was based on Victor Canning's 1972 novel The Rainbird Pattern, which Ernest Lehman adapted for the screen.
The film stars Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, and William Devane
; it was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition.
The story involves two couples: one a "fake" psychic and her cab-driving boyfriend, the other a pair of professional thieves and kidnappers.
Their lives come into conflict because of a search for a missing heir.
The film's title is a pun: "family plot" can refer to an area in a cemetery that has been bought by one family for the burial of its various relatives; in this case it also means a dramatic plot line involving various family members.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Written by: Ernest Lehman.
Based on: The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning.
Produced by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, and William Devane.
Cinematography: Leonard J. South.
Edited by: J. Terry Williams.
Music by: John Williams
Distributed by: Universal Pictures.
Release date: 9 April 1976.
File Length: 116 minutes
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $4.5 million.
Box office: $13 million.
Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career.
The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern.
The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins, and Vivien Merchant.
The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.
The plot centres on a serial killer in contemporary London and the ex-RAF serviceman he implicates.
In a very early scene, there is dialogue that mentions two actual London serial murder cases: the Christie murders in the 1940s-1950s and the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888.
Barry Foster has said that, to prepare for his role, he was asked by Hitchcock to study two books about Neville Heath, an English serial killer who would often pass himself off as an officer in the RAF.
Frenzy was the third and final film that Hitchcock made in Britain after he moved to Hollywood in 1939.
The other two were Under Capricorn in 1949 and Stage Fright in 1950. (There were some interior and exterior scenes filmed in London for the 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much.)
The last film he made in Britain before his move to the United States was Jamaica Inn (1939).
Frenzy was the only Hitchcock film given an R rating during its initial release.
Frenzy was screened at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but it was not entered into the main competition.
Some critics – such as Raymond Foery, author of Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece – consider Frenzy the last great Hitchcock film, and a return to form after his two previous works: Topaz and Torn Curtain.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Written by: Anthony Shaffer.
Based on: Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern.
Produced by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster.
Cinematography: Gilbert Taylor, and Leonard J. South.
Edited by: John Jympson.
Music by: Ron Goodwin.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures.
Release date: 21 June 1972.
File Length: 116 minutes.
Country: United Kingdom.
Language: English.
Budget: $2 million.
Box office: $12.6 million.
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