Dial M for Murder
If a woman answers... hang on for dear life!
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Dial M for Murder 3D (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ray Milland, Grace Kelly & Robert Cummings | |
Performer: | Antonio Margheriti & John Williams | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | Rudi Fehr | |
Screenwriting by | Frederick Knott | |
Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Burks |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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London Evening Standard
...Besides historic charm, the movie also sports droll humor....It's a cinema-history treat...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
The set-up is ingenious and the "kill" scene genuinely thrilling.
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Guardian
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.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 3/5 --
The film will mainly be of interest to Hitchcock aficionados and fans of '50s moviemaking - from the décor and costume, to the lovely use of Technicolor.
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Patrick Nabarro
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.
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Observer (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
Second tier Hitch perhaps, but no less enjoyable for it, and still a marvel of cinematic technique.
Little White Lies
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.
Product Description:
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.
Keywords:
Mystery
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Psychodrama
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Stage Play
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Murder
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Film Noir
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 113,078
- UPC: 085391115625
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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