A Blueprint for Murder

19531h 17m6.2(41)

MysteryCrimeThriller

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.

CountryUnited States of America

GenreMystery, Crime, Thriller

ReleaseJuly 24, 1953

DirectorAndrew L. Stone

Production20th Century Fox

CastJoseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill

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