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* RetroactiveRecognition: Katherine Helmond, pre-[[Series/{{Soap}} Jessica Tate]] and pre-[[Series/WhosTheBoss Mona Robinson]], as Joe Maloney's wife. Comes off as PlayingAgainstType, since Mrs. Maloney is much colder and more stern than the characters she came to specialize in playing.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Katherine Helmond, Creator/KatherineHelmond, pre-[[Series/{{Soap}} Jessica Tate]] and pre-[[Series/WhosTheBoss Mona Robinson]], as Joe Maloney's wife. Comes off as PlayingAgainstType, since Mrs. Maloney is much colder and more stern than the characters she came to specialize in playing.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The Rainbirds’ deceased chauffeur [[NamedLikeMyName is named]] Creator/MichaelOKeefe.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The screenplay was by ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'''s Ernest Lehman, and the theme of average people who unwittingly get wrapped up in a WickedCultured villain's schemes is common to both films. Also, George and Blanche's car danger recalls both the drunk driving scene and the crop duster scene from the earlier film.
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* SpoilerCover: The tagline on the poster in the original release flat-out gives away a crucial part of the main plot twist: [[spoiler: "There's no body in the family plot"]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The screenplay was by ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'''s Ernest Lehman, and the theme of average people who unwittingly get wrapped up in a WickedCultured villain's schemes is common to both films. Also, George and Blanche's car danger recalls both the drunk driving scene and the crop duster scene from the earlier film.
* SpoilerCover: The tagline on the poster in the original release flat-out gives away a crucial part of the main plot twist: [[spoiler: "There's no body in the family plot"]].
* SpoilerCover: The tagline on the poster in the original release flat-out gives away a crucial part of the main plot twist: [[spoiler: "There's no body in the family plot"]].
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* {{Narm}}: The runaway car scene is not without effective Hitchcockian suspense, but is also hilariously bizarre and awkward. Blanche (who is sick, tipsy, and hysterical) is literally rolling around the vehicle in a tangle of flailing arms and legs, while George (too focused to be terrified) scolds Blanche in the most whiney voice imaginable. Despite the inherent terror of the situation, the scene plays out like a husband and his drunk wife trying to fix a toaster.
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* SignatureScene: The runaway car on the steep mountain road, and the final shot.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is loosely based on ''The Rainbird Pattern'' (1972), a thriller novel by Victor Canning, which had been recommended to Creator/AlfredHitchcock by ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' creators Richard Levinson and William Link. Due to its connection with Hitchcock, it is now better remembered than the novel.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is loosely based on ''The Rainbird Pattern'' (1972), a thriller novel by Victor Canning, which had been recommended to Creator/AlfredHitchcock by ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' creators Richard Levinson and William Link. Due to its connection with Hitchcock, it Because of the Hitchcock connection, the novel is now better mostly remembered than as the novel.source of the film.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is loosely based on ''The Rainbird Pattern'' (1972), a thriller novel by Victor Canning.Canning, which had been recommended to Creator/AlfredHitchcock by ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' creators Richard Levinson and William Link. Due to its connection with Hitchcock, it is now better remembered than the novel.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is loosely based on ''The Rainbird Pattern'' (1972), a thriller novel by Victor Canning. Due to its connection with Hitchckock, it is now better remembered than the novel.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is loosely based on ''The Rainbird Pattern'' (1972), a thriller novel by Victor Canning. Due to its connection with Hitchckock, Hitchcock, it is now better remembered than the novel.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The bluescreen work in the driving scenes is exceptionally poor, even for the time. You can often see streetlights through the actors.
* TheyJustDidntCare: The Blu-Ray has [[http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Family-Plot-Blu-ray/45049/#Screenshots an uglier transfer]] than other Hitchcock movies do. When restoration expert Robert A. Harris reviewed it, he gave the picture quality a 0 out of 5, then bumped it up to 0.75 after realizing overly grainy and fuzzy picture still [[DamnedByFaintPraise bests a blank screen]].
* TheyJustDidntCare: The Blu-Ray has [[http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Family-Plot-Blu-ray/45049/#Screenshots an uglier transfer]] than other Hitchcock movies do. When restoration expert Robert A. Harris reviewed it, he gave the picture quality a 0 out of 5, then bumped it up to 0.75 after realizing overly grainy and fuzzy picture still [[DamnedByFaintPraise bests a blank screen]].
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