סרטו האחרון של היצ'קוק הוא קומדיית מתח מבריקה בה לוקחים חלק שני זוגות: מדיום מקצועית וחברה נהג המונית, וזוג מהודר ונוצץ - בעל חנות תכשיטים וחברתו העוסקים בחטיפות של סלבריטאים למען כופר נפש. בין שני הזוגות נוצר קשר בגלל ילד בלתי חוקי, קבר ריק ואינספור אי הבנות. היצ'קוק קושר לקראת השיא של הסרט את כל החוטים באופן מבריק כהרגלו.
גרי קופר, שכבר כיכב בסרטו של קאפרה "נא להכיר ג'ון דו", מגלם את דמותו של לונגפאלו דידס, אידיאליסט כפרי תמים. חייו של דידס משתנים מקצה לקצה בעת שהוא מקבל את הבשורה הגדולה מכולן - דוד רחוק, שאותו מעולם לא פגש, השאיר לא ירושה של 20 מיליון דולר! כאשר דידס מגיע לניו יורק לקבל את ירושתו העולם האמיתי מתגלה לפניו: אנשי עסקים חסרי רחמים רודפים אחריו, קרובי משפחה ללא מעצורים מחזרים אחריו, גם אהבה של עיתונאית מתגלת כמדומה ואינטרסנטית... כך, נאלץ דידס לוותר על ירושה כי פשוט היא הביאה לו יותר מדי צרות...
דרמה קומית קלאסית בריטית של הבמאי רוברט המר ("בית ספר לאפסים"). אימו של לואיס מאציני שייכת למשפחה האריסטוקרטית ד'אסקיון, אך היא בורחת עם עם זמר אופרה ומביישת את בני משפחתה. לואיס נדחה מן המשפחה ובבגרותו הוא מחליט לנקום ולהפוך לדוכס ד'אסקיון הבא. לשם כך הוא מתחיל לרצוח את כל היורשים הפוטנציאליים. עם אלק גינס (מלחמת הכוכבים), דניס פרייס (Victim) ומיילס מלאסון (פחד במה). הסרט היה מועמד לפרס בפסטיבל ונציה ולפרס ה-BAFTA.
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be.
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
A young, single mother, Jen, begins to lose her faith in the magic of Christmas. However, when she takes her son Eric to see the local mall Santa, Jen immediately feels an attraction and connection with Chris, the young, attractive man filling the suit. As they begin spending time together, she begins to rediscover her belief in Christmas.
A fearsome warrior from the Kingdom of Samarza arrives in America to assassinate a high school girl. The girl does not know it, but she is the last living heir to the Kingdom. A noble guard arrives in America to protect the young princess.
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.
Diagnosed with an incurable illness, Charles, a rugby tycoon who has made a fortune in New Zealand prints an ad in his hometown looking for his sister that he's not seen in fifty years. A notary clerk, believing that Charles has a terminal illness responds to Charles' search for heirs claiming to be his sister. Charles finds that he was misdiagnosed and returns to France to meet his long lost sister.
To claim a big inheritance, a down-on-his-luck mechanic must win a series of competitions as outlined in his birth father's will.
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.