Hitchcock's last picture. 1976. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
The fake psychic, Blanche (Barbara Harris), is told by a customer, the rich and old Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt), that Blanche will get 10 000 dollars if she can find Julia's sister's son who was given up for adoption for a long time ago.
Julia wants to make this man her heir and Blanche agrees to help, 10 000 is a lot of money. But what Blanche didn't expect was to get involved in a mystery of thiefs and kidnappers.
This movie isn't bad at all, but it's not near Hitchcock's earlier masterpieces; Notorious, Vertigo, Psycho and some others. This hasn't fully got that suspense which he is so famous for. But as I said, not bad at all.
It's entertaining, but never so exiting that you must hold breath because it's so exiting. Not like that, unfortunately. It's kind of... more soft and not too deep. The caracters aren't that interesting and touching as Scottie in Vertigo, Norman in Psycho, Mrs De Winter in Rebecca and Gregory Peck's caracter in Spellbound.
Barbara Harris is best in this movie. She's most interesting and her caracter is both stupid and funny, but also rather clever, sometimes. It's Hitchcock's last picture. I wish that it would have been more to remember. If he would have ended his inspiring and marvelous career in movie business.
Hitchcock was the best director of all time, and still is. Even though he's dead. But he's still remembered and has inspired so many people, including me, to love film and the making of it. Maybe he was kind of snobby and so, but as the master of suspense, he has lots and lots of fans worldwide, including me.
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