Of Pure Blood

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | genre = Drama | based_on = {{Based on|''Of Pure Blood''|Clarissa Henry Marc Hillel}} | story = Del Coleman Michael Zagor | teleplay = Michael Zagor | director = Joseph Sargent | starring = Lee Remick Patrick McGoohan Gottfried John | theme_music_composer = Brad Fiedel | country = United States | language = English | executive_producer = Kip Gowans | producer = Joseph Sargent | location = Munich, Bavaria, Germany | editor = Carl Pingitore | cinematography = Franz Rath | runtime = 120 min. | company = Joseph Sargent Productions K-M Productions Warner Bros. Television | budget = | network = CBS | released = {{Start date|1986|10|19}} }} {{Additional citation needed|date=November 2024}} '''''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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=TV WEEKEND; Lee Remick in Thriller, 'Of Pure Blood,' on CBS: [Review] |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/426311770 |access-date=26 November 2024 |work=New York Times |edition=Late Edition (East Coast) |date=17 October 1986 |location=New York, N.Y. |page=C.38 |language=en |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|426311770}} }}</ref>

==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.

== Cast == * Lee Remick as Alicia Browning ** Eszter Marai as young Alicia Browning * Patrick McGoohan as Dr. Felix Neumann * Gottfried John as Paul Bergmann * Richard Münch as Dr. Bamberg * Katharina Böhm as Ursula Schiller * Carolyn Nelson Sargent as Johanna * Catherine McGoohan as Pru * Hans-Jürgen Schatz as Bank Manager * Pascal Breuer as Eric * Beate Finckh as Marta * Shane Rimmer as The Colonel

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0091667}}

Category:1986 films Category:1986 television films Category:American television films Category:Films set in West Germany Category:Films shot in Germany Category:Films directed by Joseph Sargent Category:1986 English-language films