A Blueprint for Murder

He kissed her into the most sacred confession a woman can make!

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.

1953

Mystery·Crime·Thriller

1h 17min

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Top Billed Cast

Joseph Cotten
Whitney 'Cam' Cameron
Jean Peters
Lynn Cameron
Gary Merrill
Fred Sargent
Catherine McLeod
Maggie Sargent
Jack Kruschen
Detective Lieutenant Harold Y. Cole
Barney Phillips
Detective Captain Pringle
Freddy Ridgeway
Doug Cameron
Harry Carter
Wheeler (Uncredited)
James Gonzalez
Joe Cunningham (Uncredited)
Ed Hinton
Ed (Uncredited)
Jonathan Hole
Dr. Stevenson (Uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Anna Swenson (Uncredited)
Carleton Young
Frank Connelly (Uncredited)
Joyce McCluskey
Nurse Bobbie Brownell (Uncredited)
Grandon Rhodes
Probate Judge James J. Adams (Uncredited)
Walter Sande
District Attorney John J. Henderson (Uncredited)
Herb Butterfield
Judge at Preliminary Hearing (Uncredited)
Charles Collins
Pesticide Seller (Uncredited)
Oliver Cross
Club Member (Uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Maggie's Friend at Club (Uncredited)

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