Dial M for Murder (1954)

Dial M For Murder is een murder-mystery, die zich voornamelijk afspeelt op één plaats, namelijk het appartement van een getrouwd koppel. Het koppel is echter niet meer zo verliefd op elkaar als in de begindagen van hun huwelijk. De vrouw (Grace Kelly) heeft een affaire met een andere man en haar echtgenoot (Ray Milland) is hier natuurlijk niet tevreden mee. Haar echtgenoot is een tennisspeler die voor haar gestopt is met spelen. Z'n vrouw vroeg immers steeds om te stoppen met tennissen, zodat ze wat meer quality-time hadden. Hij stopte dan ook, maar niet om zo meer tijd aan haar te spenderen. Nee, hij deed het om...
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zich volledig te kunnen concentreren op het uitdokteren van een moordplan. Hij stelt alles in het werk om de perfecte moord te plegen.
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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 bei...
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ng 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.
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Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock films, but no less enjoyable. British tennis pro Ray Milland suspects that his wealthy wife Grace Kelly is fooling around with handsome American Robert Cummings. Milland blackmails a disgraced former army comrade (Anthony Dawson) into murdering Kelly and making it look like the work of a burglar. But Milland's carefully mapped-out scheme does not take into account the notion that Kelly might fight back and kill her assailant. When the police (represented by John Williams) investigate, Milland i...
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mprovises quickly, subtly planting the suggestion that his wife has committed first-degree murder. He almost gets away with it; to tell you more would spoil the fun of the film's final thirty minutes. Hitchcock claimed that he chose this single-set play because he was worn out from several earlier, more ambitious projects, and wanted to "recharge his batteries." Compelled by Warner Bros. to film Dial M for Murder in 3-D, Hitchcock perversely refused to throw in the standard in-your-face gimmickry of most stereoscopic films of the era--though watch how he visually emphasizes an important piece of evidence towards the end of the film.
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