Blood Relatives

Blood Relatives (1978)

Les liens de sang

The Most Intimate Act Of All Is... ...Murder!

A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.

Date of release
1978-02-01
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (32)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Director
Claude Chabrol

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Montreal

Blood Relatives is a 1978 film directed by Claude Chabrol, adapted by Chabrol and Sydney Banks from the 1975 "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain. It stars Donald Sutherland as McBain's fictional police detective Steve Carella, who investigates the brutal murder of a teenaged girl.

Production

Blood Relatives was the second film director Claude Chabrol made with producer Eugène Lépicier after Alice or the Last Escapade (1977). The film came to be after Chabrol gave up making a film that was intended to be a comedy about the Second International titled Cannes Saint-Petersbourg. Along with Lépicier, the film was made with the Canadian producer Denis Héroux.

The English-language version features a different score, with the original being done by Chabrol's recurring collaborator composer, Pierre Jansen. The English-language version of the film has a different score by Howard Blake. Blake said Peter Collinson purchased the rights to the film in the United Kingdom and the United States and approached him in March 1978 to write a few cues for the film.

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