Family Plot
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So, what could I say?
I just said, "It wasn't easy, Hitch."

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You bestowed upon
your dear mother and father

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all the care, all the attention,
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patience and comfort that they needed
in the sunset of their lives.

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And those of us who are
left behind to grieve for you, Joseph...

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(Bumstead) Hitch always had two or
three things he was adamant about.

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In Family Plot, he was very adamant
about that high shot in the cemetery.

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You really followed
what he had in mind on those,

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and gave him
what he wanted, you know.

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(Kazanjian) One of the major scenes
of the picture was

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the cemetery scene which we shot
in Sierra Madre, California.

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And, of course, all of the tombstones
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that you read on screen
you have to supply.

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In those days, and probably today,
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you're not to reveal somebody's name
because somebody could call up and say,

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"You've shown my wife's tombstone
with her name on it. I'm upset."

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Actually, it did happen. Later, somebody
called up and I was brought in.

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I had to look at the film, and I said,
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"That may be somebody's name,
but we provided that tombstone."

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"It's not their tombstone."
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So, by coincidence,
there was somebody else buried

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in a California cemetery
with that name.

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But in providing those cemeteries,
Hitchcock had an idea.

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And when he had a press junket
arrive at the cemetery,

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many of the tombstones
had those people's names on it.

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It looks like Miss Tyler
needs some rest.

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Will you do as I say?
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(Black) I didn't know that Mr Hitchcock
drew everything and then shot it.

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Remember, I was from the '70s,
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where at that particular point
in the history of film

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people were throwing up a lot in films,
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and they were sweating and drooling
and improvising and walking off camera,


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