Family Plot (1976)
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Top billed cast
Barbara HarrisBlanche Tyler
Bruce DernGeorge Lumley
Karen BlackFran
William DevaneArthur Adamson
Ed LauterJoseph Maloney
Cathleen NesbittJulia Rainbird
Katherine HelmondMrs. Maloney
Warren J. KemmerlingHank Granderson
Edith AtwaterMrs. Clay
William PrinceBishop Wood
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