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Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies

Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies

If a woman answers... hang on for dear life!May. 29, 1954105 Min.
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Watch: Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies, Full Movie Online – In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned..
Plot: An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to have his wife murdered after discovering she is having an affair, and assumes she will soon leave him for the other man anyway. When things go wrong, he improvises a new plan—to frame her for murder instead.
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8.2/10 Votes: 176,066
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75/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 2110 Popularity: 16.416 | TMDB

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It is very obvious that this was written as a play. It is very heavy on exposition to cover almost all activities that take place outside of the “essentially” one room of the apartment. Nothing wrong with that, but it gives the film a different feel. This is more of an intellectual exercise than a action-packed murder mystery. It might have been better to have written Tony as a chess master than a former tennis star. It would have been a bit more in keeping with his plots and strategies. Even the action in the actual murder scene is “play-like” – a rather exaggerated initial reaction to being stabbed followed by the more drawn out dying, dying, dead finale.

Each time I watch this movie, I’m always struck by the strange idea that apparently every citizen is required to account for every pound note that they acquire and spend? I have no idea if this was remotely true in England in 1954, but it seems odd and unlikely. It’s not critical, but it is jarring when they talk about it, because it seems so unnatural.

This is a great movie and a great story. However, the over-head camera angles for some scenes seems a strange choice, and Grace Kelly is clearly under-utilized in this role. Margot is such a compliant character that it seems very unlikely that she would engage in an extra-marital affair and then be so nonchalant about being with her former lover together with her husband.

While my criticisms might give the impression that I disliked the movie, these are only minor flaws in a superior film. Hitchcock is able to convey so much through an actor’s mere glance – it is incredible!

Review By: katch22

No, I’m afraid my murders would be something like my bridge: I’d make some stupid mistake and never realize it until I found everybody was looking at me.

Middle tier Hitchcock it may be, by his own admission, but it’s still one of the finest mystery thrillers around. Ray Milland plays Tony Wendice, a former tennis player married to Grace Kelly’s Margot, who is the source of his wealth. Fearing his lifestyle is about to come to an end due to her dalliances with American mystery writer, Mark Halliday (Robert Cummins), Tony hatches a plan to have her murdered by an old acquaintance whom he has over a barrel with blackmail. However, the plan backfires and a whole new strategy is needed to save Tony from suspicion.

Based on the popular and successful play by Frederick Knott (who adapts for the screenplay here), Dial M For Murder was a film Hitchcock had little time for. In fact, having already started work on Rear Window, Hitch treated Dial M For Murder as a jobbing assignment. His mood was further darkened by Jack Warner’s insistence that the film be shot in 3D, with all the camera restraints that such a production brings. Perhaps unsurprisingly though, the restraints and general mood of the director brought about very pleasing results. Choosing to go for a claustrophobic single set shoot, Hitchcock resisted the urge to launch things around for 3D effects, instead he used the process to highlight props and angles of the Wendice home. His use of colours here first rate, particularly around his new found favourite actress, Grace Kelly.

Having never seen the 3D version (who has I wonder?) I can’t say what impact, if any, the gimmick had. But regardless of Hitch’s grumblings and general disdain towards the film, he rose to the challenge by challenging himself and actually produced a fine and technically sound picture. Ray Milland is icy cold yet debonair, while John Williams as Chief Inspector Hubbard strides in and walks off with the film. Kelly is adequate enough, it’s her least effective turn for Hitch, so early in her career, she was a bit free with her physical love on the set (source “A Life in Darkness and Light”), but this highly appealed to (and amused) Hitch and he of course would use her for better rewards post this production. Sadly Cummings is awfully bland and threatens to lose the film momentum when things start to spice up in the last quarter.

Hugely entertaining picture though, one that is ripe with characterisations and of much interest to Hitchcock purists in how he works around the 3D format for his own filmic senses, Dial M For Murder holds up well today as a disquieting mystery thriller. 8/10

Review By: John Chard
One Room Thriller
I had forgotten that most if not all of it happens in one single room. The planning of it is a display of extraordinary craftsmanship. Not a lagging moment. I was riveted to the, let’s face it, preposterous plot from beginning to end. Ray Milland is a credible monster in elegant and civilized clothing. Grace Kelly, a peach as the unfaithful wife who stays home to cut newspaper clippings of her husband’s past glories. Yeah, right. Robert Cummings has always been a mystery to me. A popular leading man with a long career. He only exudes a campy, if lightweight vibe that almost works in comedies and when he’s in a supporting role – My Geisha and What A Way To Go with Shirley MacLaine are good examples. Here as Grace Kelly’s secret lover, I don’t know what to say. John Williams. very funny again as the Scotland Yard inspector, the same character to a T he played in Midnight Lace with Doris Day or was it his twin brother? In any case, no Hitchcock fan can afford to miss this filmed play, filmed by one of the undisputed greats.
Review By: dvkatzprod-74759
Dial A For Adultery
This is considered a “sophisticated” crime film and it does have some interesting dialog and a story that keeps your interest. You have to pay attention, particularly at the end when the British police inspector explains how he figured things out.

Ray Milland is the big star of this show, being in almost all the scenes. This kind of suspense movie is unheard of today – a thinking man’s gentleman as the main bad guy – with little action in the film. That wouldn’t be a success today. It was re-made in 1998 but had more twists and action scenes added.

In this film, as in that re-make (A Perfect Murder), I found myself rooting for the husband. In this case, it was Millland, although he was a bit cocky.

Note: It’s a sad comment that Hitchcock, who didn’t seem to have a lot of principles, made Robert Cummings – who was an adulterer in this film having an affair with Milland’s wife Grace Kelly – into a “good guy.” Nobody in the film challenged him on what he was doing. Apparently, adultery was okay with the filmmakers here. At least in the re-make, they made the adulterer into a scumbag (although they made the cheating wife into a sympathetic character! No matter who makes this film, they are still clueless when it comes to what’s right and what’s wrong!.)

Review By: ccthemovieman-1

Other Information:

Original Title Dial M for Murder
Release Date 1954-05-29
Release Year 1954

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min), 1 hr 28 min (88 min) (Portugal)
Budget 1400000
Revenue 3000000
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Crime, Thriller
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Frederick Knott
Actors Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award5 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1, 1.85 : 1 (intended ratio)
Camera Warner All-Media
Laboratory Warner Bros. Studio Laboratory, USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical (for non 3-D showings), StereoVision 3-D (re-release version), WarnerVision (dual-strip 3-D)
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Dial M for Murder 1954 123movies
Original title Dial M for Murder
TMDb Rating 8 2,110 votes

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