A Blueprint for Murder

Jul 24, 1953

1h 17m

★ 6.1

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Mystery

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Whitney 'Cam' Cameron

Joseph Cotten

Lynn Cameron

Jean Peters

Fred Sargent

Gary Merrill

Maggie Sargent

Catherine McLeod

Detective Lieutenant Harold Y. Cole

Jack Kruschen

Detective Captain Pringle

Barney Phillips

Doug Cameron

Freddy Ridgeway

Wheeler (Uncredited)

Harry Carter

Joe Cunningham (Uncredited)

James Gonzalez

Ed (Uncredited)

Ed Hinton

Dr. Stevenson (Uncredited)

Jonathan Hole

Anna Swenson (Uncredited)

Mae Marsh

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