Dial M For Murder
Thriller by Alfred Hitchcock about a former tennis champion who devises an ingenious plan to have his wife killed.
In 1954, Hitchcock released two films: REAR WINDOW and DIAL M FOR MURDER. The first film grew into one of the great Hitchcock classics; the second, according to Hitchcock himself, no more than an in-between release. Nonetheless, DIAL M FOR MURDER still stands tall seventy years on. It is a chamber play – based on the play by Frederick Knott – and follows the fortunes of Tony, a former tennis champion who wants his adulterous wife killed. The wife is played by Grace Kelly, in her first film with Hitchcock. Tony concocts a plan for the ‘perfect’ murder, but of course things do not go as planned.
Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1954, 105 min. English spoken, without subtitles.
With Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson.