

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
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.