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* WellDoneSonGuy: Elizabeth spends the first two decades of her life trying to win the favor of her father, who dismisses her because she is ''not'' a son.
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* {{Tontine}}: Roffe & Sons Pharmaceuticals' founder saw to it that his heirs wouldn't be allowed to sell their shares unless all shareholders agreed to it. Detective Max Hornung, investigating the murder of Sam Roffe, compares this with the tontine.
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* SerialSpouse: Helene Roffe-Martin in ''Bloodline''. Charles isn't her first husband, and he probably won't be the last.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Charles Martin, not least because he's a lot more timid than the thrill-seeking, hard-living Helene. He's so desperate to have ''something'' for himself that he invests in a vineyard.


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* IWantGrandkids: Anna's father initially felt this way, but it wasn't strong enough for him to accept Walther into their lives, hence a BegoneBribe.


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* MrsHypothetical: Elizabeth Roffe imagines becoming "Mrs. Rhys Williams". [[spoiler: That comes true.]]
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* GoldDigger: Walther Gassner is suspected of being this, [[spoiler: but he isn't]].
* IHaveThisFriend: Walther tries this with regards to treating psychosis. [[spoiler: Subverted in that he ''does'' have a friend: Anna]].

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After Sam Roffe dies in an apparent hiking accident and leaves his pharmaceutical shares to his daughter Elizabeth, the company encounters a mysterious saboteur. Elizabeth must find who is targeting her and her company before it is too late.

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After pharmaceutical industry titan Sam Roffe dies in an apparent hiking accident and leaves accident, his pharmaceutical shares to his lovely daughter Elizabeth, Elizabeth is left to inherit control of the company encounters and his shares. The problem is that his four cousins (three in the film adaptation), or their spouses, are all desperately in need of money for various reasons, but cannot sell their shares of stock unless she agrees to take the company public. Soon they, as well as Sam's handsome underling Rhys Williams, are all potential identities of a mysterious saboteur. saboteur who is out to destroy the company -- and Elizabeth must find who is targeting her -- via phony mishaps and her company before it accidents. Who is too late.
the culprit, and how does all this connect with a series of murders of beautiful women across Europe by a sinister film crew?



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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Roffes, consisting of a daughter and four cousins of a recently deceased pharmaceutical company president, are a wealthy and dysfunctional family. Elizabeth is the daughter, the heroine and a relatively well-adjusted soul -- but the cousins...Anna is married to a psychotic, Simonetta has a husband who has a whole second family via his mistress, Helene is dangerously power-hungry and makes her husband suffer for her whims, and Sir Alec is in debt to the British mob. All the men in this bunch (plus Helene) have a reason to pressure Elizabeth into taking the company public and then selling their stock in it, but which one is the saboteur?

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Roffes, consisting of a daughter and four cousins of a recently deceased pharmaceutical company president, are a wealthy and dysfunctional family. Elizabeth is the daughter, the heroine and a relatively well-adjusted soul -- but the cousins...Anna is married to a psychotic, Simonetta has a husband who has a whole second family via his mistress, Helene is dangerously power-hungry and makes her husband suffer for her whims, and Sir Alec is in debt to the British mob. All the men in this bunch (plus Helene) have a reason to pressure Elizabeth into taking the company public and then selling their stock in it, but which one is the saboteur?it.



* ImpoverishedPatrician: Due to his wife's gambling addiction, Sir Alec finds himself in debt with the British Mob.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: Max Hornung in Switzerland's version of the [=IRS=] was so competent several businessmen tried [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules and failed]] to bribe him. When one of them learned he desired to become a police detective, they pulled strings so he'd get the job. People cooperate with his investigations out of fear he'd find something on them. When he does have to find, he does find.

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* ImpoverishedPatrician: Due to his wife's gambling addiction, Sir Alec finds himself in debt with the British Mob.
equivalent of the Mafia.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: Max Hornung in Switzerland's version of the [=IRS=] was is so competent several businessmen tried [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules and failed]] to bribe him. When one of them learned he desired to become a police detective, they pulled strings so he'd get the job. People cooperate with his investigations out of fear he'd he'll find something on them. When he does have to find, he does find.find someone, he'll find them!



* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The saboteur's schemes revolve around feigned accidents -- a shipment of mislabeled drugs here, a factory explosion there...

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The saboteur's schemes revolve around feigned accidents -- a shipment of mislabeled drugs here, a factory explosion there...there.



* NonIdleRich: Despite being able to simply sell her shares of her family's company, Elizabeth decided to run the company.

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* NonIdleRich: Despite being able to simply sell her shares of her family's company, Elizabeth decided decides to run the company.
company, in part because she's never had an opportunity to prove her worth in the world.
* TheReveal: Two big ones:
** Anna and Walther's subplot ends with the reveal that [[spoiler: ''she'' is mentally ill, not Walther; her children have been dead all along for one thing]].
** The saboteur is [[spoiler: Sir Alec Nichols]], who is ''also'' responsible for [[spoiler: Sam's murder AND hiring the crew that is producing snuff films, with women chosen specifically for their resemblance to the wife he came to resent]].

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* AdaptedOut: Anna and Walther are completely absent, probably because TheReveal would be hard to adapt into a visual medium as a secondary, rather than primary, plot thread.
* AgeLift: Elizabeth and Rhys are twentysomethings in the novel, but to accommodate the casting of Audrey Hepburn (who was 50 at the time) and Ben Gazzara, they're stated to be considerably older.
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''Bloodline'' is a 1977 thriller novel by Creator/SidneySheldon which was subsequently adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1979 film]] directed by Creator/TerenceYoung, starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/BenGazzara, Creator/JamesMason, and Creator/GertFrobe.

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''Bloodline'' is a 1977 thriller novel by Creator/SidneySheldon which was subsequently adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1979 film]] directed by Creator/TerenceYoung, starring Creator/TerenceYoung and featuring an AllStarCast including Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/BenGazzara, Creator/JamesMason, Creator/RomySchneider, Creator/OmarSharif, Creator/BeatriceStraight, and Creator/GertFrobe.
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''Bloodline'' is a 1977 thriller novel by Creator/SidneySheldon which was subsequently adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1979 film]] directed by Creator/TerenceYoung and starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/BenGazzara, Creator/JamesMason, and Creator/GertFrobe.

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''Bloodline'' is a 1977 thriller novel by Creator/SidneySheldon which was subsequently adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1979 film]] directed by Creator/TerenceYoung and Creator/TerenceYoung, starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/BenGazzara, Creator/JamesMason, and Creator/GertFrobe.

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''Bloodline'' is a 1977 novel by Creator/SidneySheldon which eventually adapted into a 1979 film featuring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/BenGazzara, Creator/JamesMason, and Creator/GertFrobe.

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''Bloodline'' is a 1977 thriller novel by Creator/SidneySheldon which eventually was subsequently adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1979 film featuring film]] directed by Creator/TerenceYoung and starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/BenGazzara, Creator/JamesMason, and Creator/GertFrobe.



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* NonIdleRich: Despite being able to simply sell her shares of her family's company, Elizabeth decided to run the company.

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* NonIdleRich: Despite being able to simply sell her shares of her family's company, Elizabeth decided to run the company.company.

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* ImpoverishedPatrician: Due to his wife's gambling addiction, Sir Alec finds himself in debt with the British Mob.
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''Bloodline'' is a 1977 novel by Creator/SidneySheldon which eventually adapted into a 1979 film featuring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/BenGazzara, Creator/JamesMason, and Creator/GertFrobe.

After Sam Roffe dies in an apparent hiking accident and leaves his pharmaceutical shares to his daughter Elizabeth, the company encounters a mysterious saboteur. Elizabeth must find who is targeting her and her company before it is too late.

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*BegoneBribe: Anna Roffe's father offers her husband Walther Gassner money to make him leave her. Walther uses it to buy her a ring.
*BigScrewedUpFamily: The Roffes, consisting of a daughter and four cousins of a recently deceased pharmaceutical company president, are a wealthy and dysfunctional family. Elizabeth is the daughter, the heroine and a relatively well-adjusted soul -- but the cousins...Anna is married to a psychotic, Simonetta has a husband who has a whole second family via his mistress, Helene is dangerously power-hungry and makes her husband suffer for her whims, and Sir Alec is in debt to the British mob. All the men in this bunch (plus Helene) have a reason to pressure Elizabeth into taking the company public and then selling their stock in it, but which one is the saboteur?
*HeirClubForMen: Ivo Palazzi didn't like it that his children by his wife were all girls and that all his sons were illegitimate because he wanted male heirs to carry on his name. For Sam Roffe, his child being a girl was more of a tragedy than her mother having died within thirty minutes after the child's birth.
*IntimidatingRevenueService: Max Hornung in Switzerland's version of the [=IRS=] was so competent several businessmen tried [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules and failed]] to bribe him. When one of them learned he desired to become a police detective, they pulled strings so he'd get the job. People cooperate with his investigations out of fear he'd find something on them. When he does have to find, he does find.
*LondonGangster: The British Mob are the reason Sir Alec Nichols needs to sell his shares of Roffe & Sons Pharmaceuticals.
*MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The saboteur's schemes revolve around feigned accidents -- a shipment of mislabeled drugs here, a factory explosion there...
*TheMistress: Donatella is having an affair with Ivo Palazzi -- he has three sons with her and he's struggling to keep this a secret from his wife and three daughters.
*NonIdleRich: Despite being able to simply sell her shares of her family's company, Elizabeth decided to run the company.

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