Family Plot (DVD)

Following the success of The Birds in 1963, legendary director Alfred Hitchcock's seemingly-evergreen career at the peak of Hollywood finally began its slow descent into the wilderness, after more than twenty years of revelling in the glitz of show business. Ego clashes and allegedly excessive pay demands soured Hitchcock's working relationship with actors Paul Newman and Julie Andrews during the filming of Torn Curtain, and his decision never to work again with A-list performers symbolised the end of his run at Hollywood's heights. Hitchcock would hit a critical and commercial low with 1969's Topaz, a long-winded tale set during the Cuban Missile Crisis that was dull in ...  Read the complete review