Family Plot
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"I want it no city."
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And he never gave me
an explanation for that.

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But it was a challenge to change it
so that it became a nondescript city.

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We shot in San Francisco,
we shot a great deal on the stages,

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but it was nondescript.
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The first day, I was supposed to
meet Mr Hitchcock up in his office

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and show him the costumes
for the film.

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Except that I wasn't wearing
the costume, I was carrying it.

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And, of course,
in the '70s, you had layers.

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So, I sort of had a big black hat on
and I had a little suit.

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And then under the suit was something
and something with something else.

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So I met him and I said,
"This isn't the costume for the movie."

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"This is just what I was wearing."
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He said,
(Imitating Hitchcock) "Oh, thank God."

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"I thought this was going to be a movie
about a nightmare." (Chuckles)

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(Devane) I grew up watching him
on television

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introducing his television show
every week.

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And the first day I went to the set
they were shooting blue screen.

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I came out of the theatre,
so I had not done any movies,

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and I had never seen
the process before.

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So, there was this car
and a big screen behind it

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and the camera being set up
and everything in front of it,

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and Hitch just kind of
seemed to be killing time.

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And it went on and on,
and we waited and waited.

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I couldn't figure out
what the hell they were waiting for.

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Then, finally, his secretary
brought out a little wooden box.

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And she set the wooden box
on top of the... the hood of the car.

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I was standing to the side, and Hitch
was standing right in front of the car.

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And they brought out a telephone,
and everybody just kind of stood there,

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and I wondered
what the hell was going on.

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And then the phone rang.
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He picked up and phone,
and he said, "Yes."

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He said, "Right away," or whatever.
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And he set the phone in the box.
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And he picked up a little,
like, microphone,

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and he ripped open his shirt.
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And he put the microphone
on his pacemaker,

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and what they were doing was
checking his battery in his pacemaker.


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