Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Acting
Barbara Harris's psychic meltdown is comedy gold.
Direction
Hitchcock's last wink—he knew exactly how absurd this was.
Writing
Ernest Lehman's script balances genuine suspense with knockabout farce.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Barbara Harris
Blanche Tyler
Bruce Dern
George Lumley
Karen Black
Fran
William Devane
Arthur Adamson
Ed Lauter
Joseph Maloney
Cathleen Nesbitt
Julia Rainbird
Katherine Helmond
Mrs. Maloney
Warren J. Kemmerling
Hank Granderson
Edith Atwater
Mrs. Clay
William Prince
Bishop Wood
Nicholas Colasanto
Victor Constantine
Marge Redmond
Mrs. Vera Hannagan
John Steadman
Old Man in Cemetery
John Lehne
Andy Bush
Charles Tyner
Wheeler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hitchcock's cameo appears 40 minutes in as a silhouetted figure in the Registrar of Births and Deaths office window.
This was Hitchcock's 53rd and final film; he died four years later, making it his accidental farewell to 54 years of cinema.
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