It's the bishop!

Family Plot

(1976)

A little more than 4 years after this was released, Hitchcock was dead; his last is better than I expected. That's not to say that it's good, exactly, but Barbara Harris has a certain ditzy charm, and Bruce Dern is always interesting. Supposedly the control freak director let his actors improvise considerably here.

Appropriately weird note given the psychic fakery that drives half the plot: after two missiles-of-October films in the past week, here I encounter William Devane, who 2 years earlier had played JFK (to Martin Sheen's Bobby) in the TV movie The Missiles of October.