Logline
Title:
Blueberry Pie
Genre:
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Format:
Short
Logline:
Jealous woman fakes her own death to escape her current, increasingly distant relationship, and frames her fiance.
Outline
Info
- Adapted from Blueberry Pie by Thyra Samter Winslow from the Aug 1922 ed. of The Black Mask
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Lying in bed thinking of killing her lover or herself
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She sees the news of woman’s suicide, plan starts forming
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Mailman rings doorbell, tells nosy neighbor about vacation
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Phones maintenance to bring her luggage up
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Her lover’s trunk is taken away - did he pack this and arrange for it to be picked up?
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She goes to the suicide address and lies about being the sister
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Goes to the morgue with landlady, claims the body
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Arrange for the body to be brought to the landlady’s building
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Arranges for the undertaker to deliver the coffin, but not embalm until she can buy a dress
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Goes to her apartment and sends the trunk to the landlady’s
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Arranges for a different undertaker to buy the coffin, saying her brother had purchased a better one
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Waits for the trunk and coffin to arrive
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Has the coffin opened for a ‘last look’
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Locks the door and moves the body to the trunk, re-seals coffin
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Sends the trunk back to her apartment
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Arranges for the undertaker to pickup the coffin, informs landlady she decided to have the body embalmed at the undertaker’s after all
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Picks up blueberry pie ingredients
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She had left her watch at home, lies to neighbor story about bf getting it fixed
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Receives trunk, tells neighbor they won’t need bedding after all
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Cuts the corpse’s hair to match her own
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Bakes pie
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Dresses the body in her house dress, stained apron and stain the body’s hands
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Opening montage baking blueberry pie
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New city (Chicago), new life, new husband. Awaiting news of her former fiance’s execution.
- Paper or television depending on date
- Maybe an ambiguous ending new man sees a picture of her in the news as the murder victim
Notes
- Trunk scene from Diabolique (1955)