Rating of
4/4
Masterful Suspense
SIngli6 - wrote on 04/05/11
The virulent ferocity of this film's suspense still surprises me just thinking about it now, considering how the film reads so much like a stage-play (well, it WAS a stage play), staying mostly in one location and being incredibly dialogue-heavy, but then that was Alfred Hitchcock's gift. Great suspense is watching the perpetrator of some botched crime desperately try to 'cover their tracks', but masterful suspense is watching two people with goals virulently adverse to each other trying to achieve while you, the viewer, irrationally want both to succeed. Hitchcock created masterful suspense from a dialogue heavy stage-play. This is why Hitchcock was, and still is, THE suspense auteur, and this is why 'Dial 'M' for Murder' is one of his greatest works.
Recent Comments
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 01/30/13 at 10:54 PM CT
Dial M for Murder Review comment
Nice review. Not as popular as North by N., Rear W. or Psycho, but definitely one of his best. Unappreciated gem, its one of my favorites as well.
