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  Dial M for Murder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dial M for Murder (1954) is a U.S. film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland as a married couple.
Dial M for Murder premiered in 1952 as a BBC television play before being performed on the stage in the same year (West End, June; Broadway, October.)
Dial M for Murder must not be confused with a film with a similar setting and subject-matter, Midnight Lace (US; David Miller, 1960), starring Rex Harrison and Doris Day.
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 Dial M expresses criminal intrigue with fine film craft
In this case, of course, the crime is murder.
Therefore, a substitute murderer of unscrupulous nature must be convinced to perform the crime.
Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder is an example of pure and classic Hitchcock.
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 Amazon.ca: Dial M For Murder: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dial M for Murder was filmed in the briefly trendy 3-D process, and Hitchcock shot some scenes to bring out the depth of the 3-D field; it's especially good for the nail-biting attempted murder of Kelly, and her desperate reach for a pair of scissors that seems to be just outside her grasp.
Dial M was remade in 1998 as A Perfect Murder, a film that changed and expanded the material, with no improvement on the clean, witty original.
"Dial M" is watchable primarily because of the suave performances of Ray Milland and John Williams.
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 'Dial M for Murder': Raising Goose Pimples
For murder, a universal substance, is still the most fertile soil out of which to fetch goose-pimple blossoms and graft them onto anybody's' skin.
Mix a little murder into the top soil of a movie garden and some goose-pimples are almost sure to bloom.
"Dial M," of course, is a fable about a cool English citizen who comes to the casual conclusion that he must do away with his wife.
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 Tower Records - Dial M For Murder (BW)
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.
DIAL M FOR MURDER was shot in 3-D but not originally released in that format; the 3-D version has subsequently been screened in various art movie houses.
DIAL M FOR MURDER is Alfred Hitchcock's intriguing cinematic adaptation of Frederick Knott's play about a woman who slowly comes to realize that her husband is trying to murder her.
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 Dial M For Murder (1954)
Dial M for Murder is an absolutely delicious Hitchcock morsel that gets a little lost in the glare of his higher-profile projects.
Dial M for Murder is one of Hitchcock’s more claustrophobic affairs, limiting itself in large part to the apartment, like the play the film is based on.
Hitchcock and Dial M is a far more substantial piece, clocking in at twenty one minutes.
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 DVD Verdict Review - Dial M For Murder
Dialing J for jay walking is the dull extent of Judge Dan Mancini's criminal career.
Dial M for Murder has always been a colorful film, but the DVD is the most sparkling I've ever seen it.
Dial M for Murder lacks the depth and thematic resonance of Hitchcock masterworks like Rear Window, Vertigo, or The Birds.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dial M for Murder at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It started with Dial M for Murder, moved on with Rear Window, and ended with To Catch a Thief.
It appears that he tried out new things with Dial M, perfected the art with Rear Window, and retread the character with To Catch a Thief.
With Dial M For Murder, Hitchcock gives us a movie entirely from the point of view of the criminal.
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 The Coyote Group - Dial "M" for Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I met Dial M for Murder in my senior year of High School as a fl and white film...I got yelled at for talking three times.
Although her planned murder ended ironically, Fortgang was a believable victim, and behaved just as a woman who had been attacked should have.
Roger Bester is the set and lighting designer for "Dial M for Murder", as he has been for previous Coyote Group productions.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Dial M for Murder writer dies
Dial M for Murder playwright Frederick Knott has died at the age of 86.
Although he has only three successful plays to his name, the success of Dial M for Murder, and particularly Alfred's Hitchcock's film version, ensured his place in writing history.
The script for Dial M for Murder was rejected several times before it was picked up for British television in the early 1950s.
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 upstatebeat.com: Dial M for Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dial M for Murder plays out more along these lines.
We are made privy to the details of the murder plot.
Dial M for Murder was written by Frederick Knott and first staged in New York in 1952.
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 Dial M for Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is Swan’s need for money that ultimately causes him to turn murderer; not that the deed is handsomely paid, but rather because Wendice knows all the grisly details of some of Swann’s past moneymaking schemes, and it is the threat of exposure that really clinches the deal.
Like all perfect murders, the plan does finally go awry, and Wendice is forced to cover himself by improvising a hasty Plan B. During the second half of the film, he makes adjustments to the crime scene, doctors the evidence and answers questions from Inspector Hubbard (John Williams).
Dial M for Murder is a compact study in the sinister minutiae of domestic life, so it is only appropriate that its climax should manage to milk a high degree of tension from the question of whether a certain character will or will not walk through a door.
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 Dial M For Murder (1954) - Film Talk
Hitchcock pulls us into exploring the "perfect" murder, only to uncover that when it comes to murder, perfection is hardly the case.
Dial M For Murder stars Ray Milland as ex-tennis pro, Tony Wendice.
Tony, afraid that his rich wife is going to dump him for Mark then leave him broke and busted, decides to plan her murder and snag the inheritence.
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 DVD Savant Review: Dial M for Murder
Dry English wit as delivered by Williams often isn't as witty as it should be, but Dial M for Murder allows him a character instead of the usual refined attitude and smart but empty dialogue.
Dial M for Murder doesn't try to do a postmodern post- mortem on the chamber mystery the way Sleuth does, but it's possibly the most adept straight chamber mystery we've got.
Dial M for Murder tackles both color and a real gimmick, 3-D. His is probably the best 3-D picture ever made simply because the depth illusion is built into the design of every shot.
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 Dial ''M'' for Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The basics are like this: The murderer walks in through the front door using a spare key.
But, Margot puts up more of a fight than the murderer thought, and she kills him with the scissors that he was planning to kill her with.
There was a TV series in 1981 called "Dial M For Murder".
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 filmcritic.com Movie Review: Dial M for Murder
M stands for murder and also for mindfuck in this, one of Hitchcock's best films.
Dial M will pull you to the edge of whatever you're sitting on and keep you there.
Dial M For Murder is not always regarded as one of Hitch’s best.
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 Dial M for Murder (1954)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dial M for Murder is a well chosen vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock, very similar to Rope.
The character of Grace Kelly's paramour is American and Grace seems to have improved her British accent from Mogambo.
The remake of Dial M for Murder was disappointing because of all the additions to a very simple suspense drama.
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 Alfred Hitchcock - Dial M for Murder (1954) | Movie Review
Alfred Hitchcock - Dial M for Murder (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock only took on this version of Frederick Knott's play to fulfil his Warner's contract, and such was his lack of interest in the project that he claimed he could have phoned in his direction and that the action wouldn't have been any less interesting if he had staged it in a phone box.
The movie was quickly released in a conventional, 'flat' version as the fad for 3-D ran its course.
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 DIAL M FOR MURDER
Neighborhood Playhouse is pleased to present "Dial M for Murder," directed by Patricia Henritze on its main stage Thursday, May 19th through Sunday, June 12th.
The year is 1962 and former tennis pro Tony Wendice has decided to have his cheating wife Margot killed off so that he may collect on her will, everything of which has been left to him.
While Margot is out with her American lover Max, Tony flmails con man Lesgate into murdering his wife.
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 Dial M for Murder (1954)
    Dial M for Murder is classic Hitchcock and probably the best of the films in this box set.
There are also some other interesting visual motifs such as the telephone dial close-ups, the sequence when Margot is on trial and the use of colours, especially with regard to Grace Kelly.
He believes his scheme to be the perfect murder and is very confident about it working but, of course, everything does not go according to plan and soon he is having to react to changing conditions as they occur.
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 Amazon.com: Dial M for Murder (1954) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Dial M for Murder, we can't help but to go against our own moral judgement and wish that the murder of Grace Kelly's character goes as planned by her husband.
Dial M For Murder is frequently one of Alfred Hitchcock's more ignored films of the later part of his career, and that is a reasonable accusation.
Originally filmed and screened in 3-D (and having the distinction of being Hitch's first colour movie), DIAL M FOR MURDER was a sound critical and financial success and remains an enjoyable and entertaining tale from Hitchcock's gallery of films.
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 Movies: Dial "M" for Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Toni Wendice is planning to kill his wife, so he will receive her fortune, but to avoid the police's suspicion, and having discovered that Mark Holliday, an american crime-novel writer who was her boy-friend wrote her a love letter, he plans to fake a flmail after steeling the letter.
After having prepared the murder's background, Wendice achieves that an ex-school comrade accepts to kill the wife the day after, but surprisingly Margot saves her life by killing the murderer in legitime defense.
Wendice thinks then of trying to make his wife appear to deliberately have killed the murderer with premeditation, using of the fact that Lesgate could have been flmailing her for money, so that killing him would be Margot's only way to escape that situation.
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 DIAL M FOR MURDER
DIAL M FOR MURDER is a fabulous murder mystery that makes you think twice about cheating on your spouse.
He flmails an old college acquaintance to become the perfect murder weapon – a surprised burglar.
Though somewhat dated, DIAL M is pure Hitchcock, a film that makes you think twice about pissing off your spouse.
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 Dial M for Murder (1954)
Frederick Knott's suspense play of man plotting wife's murder and subsequent police investigation: stagey at times but slick and entertaining.
The movie was shot in 3-D although it was never released that way until after Hitchcock's death.
Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 13 minutes into the film, on the left side of the reunion photograph.
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 Dial M For Murder - Moviefone
Dial M for Murder, Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams (II), Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, George Leigh, George Alderson,...
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 Dial M For Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At The Churchtown Inn in the Amish country of Pennsylvania, innkeeper Stuart Smith interviews guests beforehand, casts the roles and sends everyone a script in advance.
At The Waverly Inn in Hendersonville, North Carolina, the professional troupe acting out the murder and investigation checks in like the rest of the guests.
There's no central listing of murder mystery weekends, but ask around: A willing suspect in your circle can clue you in.
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 Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder
The elements of editing, time and motion, along with the lighting used by Hitchcock, intertwine to help clarify the surroundings of the scene, the character's roles, and the basis for the story.
Tables, door frames, a fireplace mantel, lamp and sofa are used in Dial M For Murder to create graphic continuity in one of the beginning scenes.
Since the scene being described takes place within the opening of the movie Dial M For Murder, it is pertinent that the viewer understands the story line.
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