Of Pure Blood

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Of Pure Blood
GenreDrama
Based onOf Pure Blood
by Clarissa Henry
Marc Hillel
Teleplay byMichael Zagor
Story byDel Coleman
Michael Zagor
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Starring Lee Remick
Patrick McGoohan
Gottfried John
Theme music composer Brad Fiedel
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Kip Gowans
ProducerJoseph Sargent
Production locationsMunich, Bavaria, Germany
Cinematography Franz Rath
Editor Carl Pingitore
Running time120 min.
Production companies Joseph Sargent Productions
K-M Productions
Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network CBS
ReleaseOctober 19, 1986 (1986-10-19)

Of Pure Blood is a 1986 made-for-TV thriller for CBS that premiered on October 19, 1986, directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Lee Remick.

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Plot

Alicia Browning (Remick) is a casting director in New York City whose grown son is shot to death in Munich, Germany by police when he apparently tried to attack a doctor who was attending the annual Oktoberfest. When Alicia travels to Germany—her native homeland—to investigate, she finds the old Nazi Lebensborn breeding programs still alive and wanting her son's child—her grandchild—that he fathered with a German girlfriend before his death, for their attempts to recreate Hitler's so-called 'master race' and a modern-day Fourth Reich.

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