Bloodline

Bloodline (1979)

The line between love and death is the bloodline.

A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit.

Date of release
1979-06-29
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (52)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Director
Terence Young

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Bloodline
  • Filmed in: Paris and Munich

Bloodline is a 1979 thriller film directed by Terence Young and starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Maurice Ronet, and Romy Schneider. Adapted by Laird Koenig from the 1977 novel of the same name by Sidney Sheldon, it follows international pharmaceutical heiress Elizabeth Roffe who is targeted for death by unknown members of her extended family, while a serial killer simultaneously crisscrosses Europe, murdering women in snuff films. It was the only R-rated film ever made by Hepburn. Bloodline was the second film Hepburn made after coming back from an eight-year retirement from acting.

Production

Paramount paid Sidney Sheldon $1.25 million plus ten percent of the box office gross for the film rights to his novel before it was published. According to producer Sidney Beckerman, this was a record sum paid by a film studio for the rights to a book until Peter Benchley was paid a reported $2 million for the film rights to The Island a short time later.

Principal photography took place from October 8 to December 22, 1978, in New York City, London, Surrey, Paris, Sardinia, Rome and several locations in West Germany. Hepburn was 49 years old during filming, and according to IMDb, Elizebeth's character age was originally supposed to be 23. However, when Hepburn signed onto the role, the character age was changed to 35, though on film she appears to be much older still.

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