A Blueprint for Murder

Jul 24, 1953

1h 17m

★ 6.2

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

A Blueprint for Murder Trailers

Cast

Whitney 'Cam' Cameron

Joseph Cotten

Lynn Cameron

Jean Peters

Fred Sargent

Gary Merrill

Maggie Sargent

Catherine McLeod

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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7.6

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Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

6.1

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7.1

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8.1

Vertigo

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7.3

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5.4

Black Crown

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A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.

7.1

Bitter Moon

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5.2

The Arnelo Affair

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A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

6.1

Trapped

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Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.

6.0

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6.4

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6.5

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6.5

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6.2

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7.1

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6.7

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6.1

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6.6

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