Build a movie plot around this: After drugging her, where did Arthur leave Blanche while he and Fran leave to collect ransom for the bishop? Basement
The story involves a fake psychic, Blanche Tyler (Barbara Harris), and her con-artist, taxi driver boyfriend, George Lumley (Bruce Dern), who attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guilt-ridden old woman, named Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt). Julia, one of Blanche's clients, was responsible for her now-deceased sister giving up a baby boy for adoption years earlier and now wants to make him her heir. She will pay Blanche $10,000 if he is found.However, the nephew and prospective heir is now a successful jeweler in San Francisco known as Arthur Adamson (Williams Devane), who has a secret and lurid past, having apparently murdered his adoptive parents and faked his own death. With his girlfriend Fran (Karen Black), he has successfully kidnapped an assortment of millionaires and dignitaries, returning them when the ransom, a valuable gemstone, has been delivered, which they hide in their chandelier.Eventually the paths of these two couples cross when Adamson learns that Blanche and George are pursuing him, and he suspects the worst, putting their lives in danger. It begins to come together when George begins looking up the missing nephew by going to the local records office to find the adoptive parents that Julia's sister gave her baby to.(In the birth and death records office, the audience can see the silhouetted shadow of the director of the film, Alfred Hitchcock, in one of his renowned cameos.)George learns that the real name of the nephew was Edward Shoebridge and he follows the leads to a gas station owner named Moloney (Ed Lauter) who helped Adamson fake his death and covered it up. Moloney then meets with Adamson who tells him about George asking questions about 'Edward Shoebridge' in which Adamson and Fran begin staking out George's house and follow him to Blanche's house where they overhear him talking about the Shoebridge leads and that Moloney knows more then he is saying.Adamson then sends Moloney to kill both Blanche and George by pretending that he knows information about the missing...