Family Plot
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the one scene where
the bishop is kidnapped

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as well as other scenes
had to be retaken.

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Now, if there were
any shots in the sequence

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that didn't have Roy Thinnes in,
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then we only picked up those
shots to replace the actor.

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We didn't shoot - necessarily
shoot the entire scene over.

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(Devane) There's some shots
with Roy in the picture.

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Some of the longer shots
in San Francisco, actually,

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after the church sequence, when they
drag the body to the car, it's all Roy.

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I think I worked about six weeks on it,
out of a ten-week shoot.

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It was quite an experience cos you worked
9 to 5, like you were working in a bank.

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The trees are swaying
and the branches part!

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But there's no one there! Here.
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I see shadows falling!
The air's getting cold!

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The brightness dims. Goodbye, Henry.
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- Bye.
- (Devane) Hitch loved Barbara Harris.

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He just loved her and would tell
all these wonderful stories with her.

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I sat and heard these wonderful stories.
He never told the same story twice.

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The nice thing was that he understood
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the parent-child relationship,
director to actor.

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I also, again, was a novice.
I had very little film experience.

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(Kazanjian) One of the things he did
at the very last minute,

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which was quite unusual for Hitchcock,
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was to really take away the set
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that it was originally designed in,
or the period and location.

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Hitchcock had been famous
for travelling the world

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and really opening up
locations in film making.

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And he said to me,
"I want to take away anything

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that said Northern California."
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"I don't want any names on police cars.
I don't want names on badges."

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"I want you to investigate
every person's name in the screenplay

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and make sure that that person
really doesn't exist."

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"And if he does, change it."

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