大巧局

茱莉亚（Cathleen Nesbitt 饰）年事已高，家财万贯，可是没有子嗣，也就没有名正言顺的继承者，为此，她找到了女巫师布兰奇（芭芭拉·哈里斯 Barbara Harris 饰）。茱莉亚告诉布兰奇，她的妹妹曾有一个私生子，被她送给别人抚养，如今，她想找到这个可怜的孩子，让他继承家产。 　　就这样，布兰奇和情人乔治（布鲁斯·邓恩 Bruce Dern 饰）一起展开了调查，得知领养茱莉亚外甥的那个家庭全员葬身于大火之中，而放火的不是别人，正是他们想要找的那个人——爱德华（威廉姆·德瓦内 William Devane 饰）。如今的爱德华改名换姓，成为了一位珠宝商，狡猾的他害怕当年的罪行曝光，于是雇佣了当年帮他脱罪的马罗尼（艾德·劳特 Ed Lauter 饰），让他将布兰奇一行人杀死。The trickster Madam Blanche Tyler lures the elder millionaire Julia Rainbird that believes she is a spiritualist. After a séance, she discovers that Julia is tormented by her past, when she forced her sister and single mother Harriet to deliver her baby for adoption to avoid a family scandal. Julia promises the small fortune of ten thousand-dollar to Blanche if she finds her nephew and heir of her fortune using her phony powers. Blanche asks her boyfriend George Lumley, who is an unemployed actor working as cab driver, to investigate the whereabouts of Julia's nephew. Meanwhile, the greedy jeweler and collector Arthur Adamson kidnaps wealthy people with his girlfriend Fran to increase his collection of diamonds with the ransom. When George concludes that Arthur Adamson might be the heir of Julia Rainbird, the reckless Blanche gets in trouble with the kidnappers.