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Dial M for Murder (1954)

Dial M for Murder poster
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Genre
drama film, action film, crime film, thriller film, crime thriller film, detective film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
PG
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2,883 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man plots to kill his wife for her money and hires an old acquaintance to carry out the murder. His plan goes wrong, and a police inspector investigates the crime.

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What happens

Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams. Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York City's Broadway in October. Originally intended to be shown in dual-strip polarized three dimensions (3-D), the film played in most cinemas in ordinary two dimensions (2-D) owing to the loss of interest in the 3-D process (the projection of which was difficult and error-prone) by the time of its release. The film earned an estimated $2.7 million in North American box-office sales in 1954. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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