Loosely based on Victor Canning's 'The Rainbird Pattern', which features the two parallel stories, but then very much Hitchcockized with Ernest Lehman. It's quite un-Hitchcocky in a way, more plotty, more scenes of exposition, but the story and performances are fun, and the ending moves properly into his famous 'pure cinema' mode.
Lehman greatly disapproved of the ending which we have now but I think Hitch was right to stick to his version - in particular Barbara Harris's into camera wink at the audience.
Nice track in to diamond (DP Leonard J South):
Good casting of supporting characters as usual: Cathleen Nesbitt, Ed Lauter, Katherine Helmond, Nicholas Colosanto and Charles Tyner:
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