"The Rainbird Pattern" - by Victor Canning - quotes

Quotations relating to "The Rainbird Pattern".

Film Pre-Production

After the success of ''Frenzy'', my father decided to do an adaptation of ''The Rainbird Pattern'', a book by British novelist Victor Canning. The story of the book was very different from the film. It was set in the English countryside, not on the West Coast. And Madame Blanche had real psychic powers. But most importantly, the overall tone of the book was very dark. The film was carefully designed and prepared, and Ernest Lehman, who had worked on ''North by Northwest'', was brought in. Everything was important in a Hitchcock picture. He paid attention to all the details. That's why he liked to work with the same people on his films.

— Patricia Hitchcock (2001)

source: Plotting Family Plot

keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Lehman, Family Plot (1976), The Rainbird Pattern, Victor Canning, and pre-production