Sisters (1973) on Netflix
Grace Collier, a columnist on Staten Island, sees a man stabbed in an apartment across from hers. The police find no body, so she hires private investigator Joseph Larch.
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Plot summary
Grace Collier writes a column for the Staten Island Panorama, light pieces mostly, though she would rather do harder stories. From her apartment window one morning she watches what she takes to be a stabbing in the apartment opposite, and she calls the police. Detective Kelly and his partner arrive and find no victim, no blood, and no woman who answers to her description. The tenant, Danielle Breton, a French-Canadian model, says she has been by herself. Grace's editor lets her chase the story, since the man she saw was black and the police may not be taking her seriously. She engages Joseph Larch, a private investigator, to get her inside the apartment. Danielle's ex-husband, Emil Breton, visits her there.
Cast
- Catherine Gaffiganas Arlene
- Bobby C. Collins
- Cathy Berryas Lobster child (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sisters (1973)
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- Editor Paul Hirsch and Brian De Palma cut Sisters while playing Bernard Herrmann's scores for Psycho, Marnie and Vertigo against key scenes, which led De Palma to ask Herrmann to score the film. Herrmann was semi-retired but admired the screenplay and agreed.
- To show both conjoined twins together on screen in the finale, both played by Margot Kidder, Brian De Palma had Kidder photographed seated in two different positions and joined the images with optical editing.
- Brian De Palma wrote Sisters after reading a 1966 Life magazine article about the Soviet conjoined twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova. A photograph of the two girls on a couch, one with a surly, disturbing look and the other smiling and healthy, started the whole idea in his mind.
