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Dial M For Murder [VHS] [1954]

VHS ~ Ray Milland
4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams (II), Anthony Dawson
  • Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 14 Feb 2000
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004D32U
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,579 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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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

Synopsis
A woman slowly realises that her husband is trying to murder her. When the wrong person falls victim, a deadly series of events begins. A Hitchcock masterpiece.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars DVD PLEASE, 15 Jan 2004
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I love most of Hitch's movies but this has to be one of my all time favourites. All the performances are excellent and I never tire of watching it.

So please, why has it not been remastered and reissued on DVD like all of Hitch's other movies - some of which are nowhere near as good as this one? I hope this is rectified very soon.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Do you really believe in the perfect murder?, 16 Mar 2007
By Bel Alcat "bel_78" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dial M for Murder [DVD] [1954] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Do you really believe in the perfect murder? Tony Wendice (Ray Milland), a former tennis player, does. That is the reason why he decides that asking someone to kill his beautiful and very rich wife is a good idea.

But why kill someone just for the sake of doing so? Truth to be told, Tony is afraid that Margot (Grace Kelly) will ask him for divorce in order to marry Mark (Robert Cummings), an American writer she had a brief affair with after marrying Tony. Margot decided to stay with her husband, and is not aware of the fact that he knows about her past relationship with Mark, who happens to visit them when Tony decides he has to kill his wife. But how will he do it? And will he succeed?

If you really want to know the answers to those questions, and enjoy a well-paced thriller, watch "Dial M for Murder (1954). Enjoy it...

Belen Alcat

PS: "Dial M for Murder" was the inspiration for "A perfect murder" (1998), a film starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite Hitchcock film, 10 Dec 2004
This review is from: Dial M for Murder [DVD] [1954] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
I never tire of watching this film, it just gets better and better on each viewing. The direction is stunning. I dont know of any other director who could make such an entertaining film that has 95% of its action confined to one set. Grace Kelly is just gorgeous, Ray Milland is so cool, but John Willams as the detective steals the show. I have seen nearly all of Hitchcock's films and I love most of them, but this is the one I would take to my desert island.
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