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Family Plot is a confection: a sugared almond, from the heart whose kernel the tiny capsule of traditional poison is unaccountably missing. Billed as diabolical, the film is in fact benign to the point of all-out merriment.

It shows the Master of Suspense back in top form, and he keeps us laughing all the way to the unexpected ending.

It is a grand entertainment in the grand tradition, the dialogue as sprightly as the pace, the giggles as frequent as the gasps, the scene as realistic as the action, the people as credible as the plot.

Family Plot proves what some of us have long suspected: namely, that deep down the "diabolical" old "master of suspense," Alfred Hitchcock, is really an irrepressible clown.