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Dial M for Murder (1954) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
212 |
Avg. Rating: |
3.19/4 |
# of Ratings: |
175 |
Genres: |
Mystery, Thriller |
Rating: |
PG |
Language: |
English |
Theater Date: | 05/29/1954 |
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Director: |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Actors: |
Ray Milland
Grace Kelly
Robert Cummings
John Williams
Anthony Dawson
Patrick Allen |
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Plot Outline:
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A man develops the perfect plan to kill his wife. When it fails, he is left with his alternate plan...
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Chris Kavan 05/10/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
Hitchcock may have "dialed in" his directorial performance - even so, this is just as good and suspenseful as any of his bigger, well-known films. Thanks to the charmingly smooth Ray Milliand, Grace Kelly as his wife and John Williams - it all comes together nicely. It's pretty much confined to one set, but in the end, that's all it needs. |
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mitchellyoung 09/07/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
A rare suspenseful thriller in which the audience is allowed to know quite a lot about the villain and yet the tension does not diminish. One of Hitchcock's simplest, but also one of his best. |
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SIngli6 04/05/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
4/4 |
Great suspense is most often conceived from watching the perpetrator of some botched crime desperately try to 'cover their tracks', but masterful suspense is almost always conceived from watching two people with goals virulently adverse to each other trying to achieve their respective goals through means of visceral ferocity... while you, the viewer, irremediably want both to succeed. This is why Hitchcock is THE suspense auteur, and this is why 'Dial 'M' for Murder' is one of his greatest works. |
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sapien 08/02/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
The classic murder mystery. It's definitely Hitch's best. I love these types of movies. And, unfortunately, they don't make them like this anymore. |
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03/29/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Another one that blew me away! |
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Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) has everything a man might want in life: A mantel full of sports’ trophies, a cushy lifestyle, lots of booze, a rich and attractive younger wife Margot (Grace Kelly) and the perfect plan to commit murder. Tony had planned the murder carefully for a long time having discovered Margo has an affair with American author Mark Holliday (Robert Cummings). Fearful that if she leaves him he will be broke he decides to commit the perfect murder. He blackmails small time crook Charles Alexander Swann, (Anthony Dawson) an old college acquaintance to kill her but the plot goes disastrously wrong when Margot miraculously survives the attack by grabbing a pair of scissors as her assassin is strangling her.
Tony's scheme appears to have misfired, but he is qui... |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
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02/01/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Dial M for Murder |
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An underrated gem of a thriller without the blood and crazy antagonist. Tony Wendice (Milland) is an ex-professional tennis player discovered about American crime-fiction writer named Mark Halliday (Cummings) and his wife’s activities. A colleague of Tony plans a murder with Charles Alexander Swann (Dawson). Margot (Kelly), Tony’s wife, gets strangled but manages to escape. Chief Inspector Hubbard (Williams) investigates the death of a man in the couple’s place.
The directors’ ability to provide humor and build tension at the same time in a scene is unblemished. Score was thrilling and the artists were convincing. The film’s strength is its camera direction and screenplay. A few lines from the film: Tony – “People don't commit murder on credit.” Hubbard – “Mind you, even I did... |
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4/4 |
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