Movie
A Blueprint for Murder
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1953-07-24
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Joseph Cotten as Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
- Jean Peters as Lynn Cameron
- Gary Merrill as Fred Sargent
- Catherine McLeod as Maggie Sargent
- Jack Kruschen as Harold Y. Cole
- Barney Phillips as Detective Captain Pringle
- Freddy Ridgeway as Doug Cameron
- Harry Carter as Wheeler (uncredited)
- James Gonzalez as Joe Cunningham (uncredited)
- Ed Hinton as Ed (uncredited)
- Jonathan Hole as Dr. Stevenson (uncredited)
- Mae Marsh as Anna Swenson (uncredited)
Crew
- Andrew L. Stone - Director
- Andrew L. Stone - Screenplay
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