Dial M for Murder

If a woman answers... hang on for dear life!
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  • 2 New Documentaries: Hitchcock and Dial M and 3D: A Brief History
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Languages: English & French
  • Subtitles in English, French & Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 7, 2004
  • Originally Released: 1954
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Well-acted, un-stagy and with a huge third-act boost from John Williams...
USA Today
Sep 10, 2004
Dial M is less a filmed play than a highly cinematic investigation of theatricality. Full Review
Village Voice
Jan 2, 2008
The fun of Dial M lies in its duel of wits... Full Review
TIME Magazine
Aug 24, 2008
Rating: A+ -- Dial M For Murder (1954) is director Alfred Hitchcock's screen version of English playwright Frederick Knott's script. It was filmed in 3-D with the faddish technology that was available at the time (but already going out of fashion)... Full Review
AMC Filmsite
Sep 29, 2019
Rating: 4/5 -- The risk with clever thrillers is always that they will focus on pleasing the intellect at the expense of developing more depth. Dial M For Murder is a different kind of animal. Full Review
Eye for Film
Aug 19, 2013
Rather than let someone else mess with a play that has a formal perfection, Hitchcock did the adaptation himself, his only such credit while in Hollywood. Full Review
Observer (UK)
Jul 28, 2013
Rating: 3/5 -- Ray Milland is great as cold fish Tony Wendice, a former tennis pro who plans to bump off his adulterous wife. Still, Grace Kelly is mis-cast (or misdirected) as the spouse in question. Full Review
London Evening Standard
Jul 26, 2013

Description by OLDIES.com:

Alfred Hitchcock's screen version of Frederick Knott's stage hit Dial M for Murder is a tasty blend of elegance and suspense casting Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings as the points of a romantic triangle. Kelly won the New York Film Critics and National Board of Review Best Actress Awards for this and two other acclaimed 1954 performances (Hitchcock's Rear Window and her Oscar-honored work in The Country Girl). She loves Cummings; her husband Milland plots her murder. But when he dials a Mayfair exchange to set the plot in motion, his right number gets the wrong answer - and gleaming scissors become a deadly weapon. Dial "M" for the Master of Suspense at his most stylish.

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Alfred Hitchcock had already begun work on REAR WINDOW when he took on the project to direct DIAL M FOR MURDER, based on the successful play by Frederick Knott. For the film, Hitchcock chose to cast his favorite leading lady of the time, Grace Kelly, as the embattled Margot Wendice. Kelly would also star in REAR WINDOW and Hitchcock's subsequent TO CATCH A THIEF. It wasn't Hitchcock's preference to shoot DIAL M FOR MURDER in Warnercolor 3D (the cameras were large and unwieldly), and the film is seldom screened in 3D, but Hitchcock's use of the technique is notable for its service to the story rather than just being a gimmick. In the film Margot Wendice is a wealthy heiress whose playboy husband, Tony (Ray Milland), recognizes his dependence on his wife's fortune. When Tony begins to suspect he is losing Margot's affection to writer Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), he also begins to fear he will lose her wealth. This leads the callous husband to craft a plan for his wife's death. However, when the plan goes awry, Tony is quick to turn circumstance into a second opportunity to destroy his wife.

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  • Sales Rank: 19,896
  • UPC: 085391115625
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