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Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams II, Anthony Dawson Director: Alfred Hitchcock Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 105 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Release Date: September 7, 2004 Theatrical Release Date: May 29, 1954 Studio: Warner Home Video
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When American writer Mark Halliday visits the very married Margot Wendice in London he unknowingly sets off a chain of blackmail and murder. After sensing Margot's affections for Halliday her husband Tony Wendice fears divorce and disinheritance and plots her death. Knowing former school chum Captain Lesgate is involved in illegal activities Tony blackmails him into conspiring to kill Margot. When she kills Lesgate in self-defense Tony implicates her as being guilty of premeditated murder. Halliday must out-stratagize Tony to save Margot's live.Running Time: 105 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391115625
A suave tennis player Ray Milland plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife Grace Kelly, who is having an affair with a writer Robert Cummings. Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for improvisation. Alfred Hitchcock wisely stuck to the stage origins of Dial M for Murder, ignoring the temptation to "open up" the material from the home of the unhappy couple. The result may not be one of Hitchcock's deepest films, but it's a thoroughly engaging chamber movie. It also features Grace Kelly at her loveliest, the same year she made Rear Window with Hitchcock. 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. However, the film was rarely shown with the proper 3-D projection, going out "flat" instead a 1980 reissue restored the process for a limited theatrical release. 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. --Robert Horton
