094 - Family Plot - Cinema Limbo

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Jeremy is joined by Mark Aldridge, academic and author of Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World, to discuss 1976 comic suspense thriller Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock's final film and starring Barbara Harris, William Devane, Bruce Dern and Karen Black. Their conversation touches on matters including the Master's unproduced work, televisual cinema, second-generation nostalgia, the hiring and firing of actors and damage to the fourth wall.

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This episode was published on March 24, 2021.

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Jeremy is joined by Mark Aldridge, academic and author of Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World, to discuss 1976 comic suspense thriller Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock's final film and starring Barbara Harris, William Devane,...

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