A Blueprint for Murder

A Blueprint for Murder

1953 · 77 min · EN · NR · 6.1 (32 votes)
Dir. Andrew L. Stone · Starring Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips · Music Leigh Harline

He kissed her into the most sacred confession a woman can make!

DramaThrillerMysteryCrime

Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.

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A suffocating, noir-tinged thriller where simmering suspicion and repressed desire create a palpable tension. The confined setting amplifies the psychological dread as a web of deceit slowly unravels, leaving you questioning everyone's motives.

suspensefulclaustrophobicmelancholicnoirsteadyclassic Hollywoodfilm noirHitchcockiangreedsuspicionfamily secretsobsession
cruisefilm noirpoisoning
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