In Hollywood cinema, 1976 left glorious marks. It was the year of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men, and Sidney Lumet's Network. It was also the year of Alfred Hitchcock's farewell to cinema: his final film, Family Plot, premiered in the US 50 years ago. Revisiting these final memories of the 'master of suspense', it is clear that his later films, including Topaz and Frenzy, reflected a moral disenchantment and a skepticism toward the changing structures of film production. While Hitchcock continued to work on a project titled The Short Night, his declining health prevented it from being made, leaving Family Plot as his final testament.