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Plot: An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
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MCT:August 5, 2008Another amazing 'one-room' crime movie, he almost figured out how to do the perfect murder, he only had one little mistake. Very cool suspencing movie with allot of twists who makes this movie awesome
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MCT:July 20, 2008
Enthralling plot with lots of twists.
Yet again, Hitchcock succeeds in leading the viewer to believing what he actually want them to believe, hypnotizing them for the entire act, set in just one room.
Ray Milland's improvisation, each time a thing goes wrong for him, is brilliantly written and convincing.
Remade in 1998 as "A perfect murder" -
MCT:July 11, 2008
Kelly and Milland are brilliant. A few undeniably well thought up plot points. Another score for Hitch.
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MCT:July 6, 2008Suspenseful, edge-of your seat flick. Another fabulous Hitchcock film--the man simply does not miss!
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MCT:July 6, 2008
Far from Hitchcock's best but still pretty good. I must say Ray Milland is one charming motherfucker.
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MCT:July 2, 2008
Saw this movie recently with my wife. Intriguing plot and story. Adapted from a broadway play. Hitch didn't change the story one bit, but the camera angles made the story.
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MCT:June 29, 2008
My favourite Hitchcock film I have seen yet. It's fun to see how Tony shifts the attention from him... Things we learn from ths film 1) Don't cheat on your husband 2) Don't try to kil your wife
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MCT:June 28, 2008
This movie is quite good, but I feel it doesn't belong in the elite class of other Hitchcock masterpieces. Still, it was enough of a classic for Hollywood to do it's usual remake, when they did so with "A Perfect Murder". We are first introduced to the situation which materializes the murder plot, when jealous and bitter husband Tony (Ray Milland) finds out his wife Margot (Grace Kelly) has fallen for another man (Robert Cummings). He discovers the affair through a letter he finds, and ends up blackmailing an old, shady college friend into murdering his wife while out of the house, thus giving him an alibi of innocence to the killing. Of course though, this does not play out perfectly as planned, and Tony is forced into an impromptu cover up once the police get involved. The most interesting portion of this movie is seeing the desperate but clever cover up attempt slowly start to dissolve as more and more clues become hard to refute. The writing here is pretty intricate and deserves most of the credit, but the acting remains stagey at times and the dialogue lengthy, as it almost spells out too much in the beginning, negating some potential suspense. Also, the film has only minimal set designs, which makes it feel a little confined, but luckily it isn't a huge problem. Although it has some minor flaws, there is still enough here to make it a minor classic in it's own right, and is worth checking out.
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MCT:June 23, 2008
''Do you really believe in the perfect murder? ''
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Ray Milland: Tony Wendice
Grace Kelly: Margot Mary Wendice
Robert Cummings: Mark Halliday
This suspenseful thriller, this Dial M for Murder is a must see. Alfred Hitchcock yet again shows he was and still remains one of the first masters of film directing.
The innocence of the stunning Grace Kelly, the acting of Ray Milland, and John Williams are very good. The details unfold beautifully as you view Dial M. The plot and premise is as old as the hills but nonetheless compelling and enthralling all at the same time.
Meanwhile, another aspect of Hitchcock's films which makes them his own creation is his ability to keep the viewer glued and hypnotised without hardly any changes to the settings. This is apparent in Dial M For Murder, as in Rear Window, where most of filming is shot in a one room.
It is these elements, which make a film undoubtedly Hitchcock's own, that leaves one to puzzle over why the man perceived it to be important to place himself in mostly all of his films. Vanity maybe? Perhaps it was just for the purpose of being witty or very cocky which compelled him to be so cheeky. On the hand it might have merely been a ploy to encourage the audience, or viewer to pay more attention and try and spot him.
As to the plot of the film Dial M for Murder itself, I think it is very clever with brilliant dialogue. Also containing so many twists in Dial M that the viewer is completely led in circles by the director. Aside from the brilliantly constructed plot, the suspense and build up is astounding. Hitchcock also is in control of the actors like puppets on a string and deftly unravels the crime.
This should not be overlooked because of Hitchcock's bigger, more familiar films, as Dial M for Murder is without a doubt one of his best. -
MCT:June 20, 2008
What can I say !! another intelligent thrilling movie by the great Alfred Hitchcock. Although the ending wan't fait to me !!
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A good effort for the 'Master' of suspense. Hitch didn't miss, but he didn't hit it out of the park either. Some glaring holes.
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MCT:April 15, 2008
This is my favorite Hitchcock film. Ray and Grace are terrific actors in this movie, about betrayal and the outcome of it. There are many twists in this. Very mysterious.
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MCT:April 11, 2008
murder mystery at its best. Instead of following the detective or good guy the story revolves around the mastermind of the whole crime who is absolutely brilliant at talking his way out of even the tightest spots.I highly recommend this to and murder mystery fans out there.
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MCT:March 22, 2008
You don't feel that the action happens in a room the whole movie. Hitchcock is truly the master of suspense.
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MCT:March 16, 2008
I saw it in a theater in 3-D when it was re-released in the early 1980s. HItchcock intended that it be seen in 3-D, but few 3-D prints exist today.
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MCT:March 8, 2008i think that Grace Kelly played this role very well showing her emotions when she is told what her husband had planned to do
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MCT:March 2, 2008
hmm.... not bad though. but i dont think that ray milland has shown his greatest performance in this movie. he sounds too calm for a man who's planning his wife's murder. i still think milland's best in the lost weekend. the ending is somehow predictable. grace kelly, on the other hand, is great as usual. she is capable in portraying her emotions as the wife whose husband's planning to murder. so far, this movie is a worth to watch, especially for the hitchcockians out there
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MCT:January 31, 2008
Il faut avouer que, progressivement, je commence un peu à me lasser de cette fameuse théorie du crime parfait qui, mine de rien, revient à peu près dans la moitié des films de Hitchcock que j'ai vu. Peut-être aurait-il été temps d'innover puisque ce classique de 1954 était loin d'être le premier genre. Mais le fait est que Knott l'a composé à la Agatha Christie, ce qui a eu tôt fait de me charmer et de m'intriguer tant l'enquête devenait complexe. Bémol majeur, par contre: je m'aperçois que, dans la majorité des films de Hitchcock, les motivations des protagonistes principaux apparaissent souvent absurdes ou injustifiées, ce qui en est venu à me déranger fortement dans mon appréciation du film.
Seule Grace Kelly offre une performance divine (sacrément) en interprétant Margot puisque son personnage passe avec succès à travers une gamme d'émotions explosive dont elle s'acquitte parfaitement. Quant aux deux principales distributions masculines, Ray Milland et Robert Cummings, il me semble qu'on aurait pu choisir mieux puisque leur jeu m'a paru défaillant et stéréotypé à plusieurs reprises... -
MCT:January 7, 2008
when good murder goes bad...an elegant and intriguing movie. Milland plays a flawless jealous husband and Grace Kelly is charming as always. maybe not as varied and suspenseful as some of Hitchcock's other films, but no less fascinating. a beautifully-crafted movie, from adapted screenplay to a classic pair of scissors.
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MCT:January 3, 2008
a must-see hitchcock classic in 50s, and it features one of the best hitchcockian villain, ray milland as well as the stunning grace kelly as the hitchcockian icy cold blonde. this time the plotline begins with one of hitchcock's commonly favorite themes: murder on one's spouse.
ray milland plays the former tennis star who highly relies on the well fortune of his wife, angered by her infidelity, he schemes to blackmail his college acquaintance into slaughtering his wife. but the wife accidentally grabs a pair of scissors as self-defense, then the thug dies that forces him into entrapping his wife with muder-charged death sentence....
one of the elements on hitchcock's success is his thrust upon audience's intelligence and focused patience, and he hasn't altered any location of scenery in the whole flick, and all the plots all occur in one fixed tiny appartment which form the atmosphere of clausphobia. and his clever use of macguffin is upon the crucial drawback of this crime event, the key in grace kelly's handbag. the suspense is totally absorbed by the viewer while his attention is in quest of the key as hitchcock intends to manipulate.
the showstopper in it is marvellous pro ray milland whose caculated composure savors his ruthless villainy with excellence. the scene he tricks a man into his apartment with murder proposal is brilliantly formidable, and from time to time, the complacent smirk upon his face gives him the adequate aura of an aloof villain. milland's character also confronts his final catastrophe with grace and fine humor like a good loser.
as hitchcock always sympathesizes his villians, milland's wife-murderer also has a cause: marital unfaithfulness which resonates another classic hitchcockian trait: moral ambiguity. she cheats him first, then he schemes to kill her as an unworthy spouse. -
MCT:January 3, 2008
wow!! the way hitchcock weaves the story is sooo engrossing!! i couldnt move from the screen while this was on.. a definite watch for the smoothness of the movie..
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MCT:December 31, 2007
Another Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece! They're just one after another. A suspenseful, chilling, and fun mystery/thriller from the Master Of Suspense. It's a perfect cast. (Can you say Grace Kelly & Ray Milland) The murder scene is one of the best scenes in any movie, and remains one of my favorites.
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GJDWriterposted 90 days ago -
This is a film that could be studied in film classes. The character build-up mixed with brilliant camera direction makes this a notable Hitchcock film. Grace Kelly gives what I consider to be her best performance in a Hitchcock film next to To Catch a Thief and Rear Window.
Ray Milland and John Williams are perfect opposites for this investigation that takes place. Both underrated performances.posted 249 days ago
