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Bookmark this pageDial M for Murder (1953)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Shot in 3-D - which resulted in some rather strained and awkward compositions - this nevertheless remains one of Hitchcock's very stagiest films. Milland is the has-been tennis star who decides to have his wife killed in order to lay his hands on her fortune; Kelly is the potential victim who cannot, at first, work out why a stranger should enter her house and try to murder her. It all moves along in a rather efficient if lifeless fashion, with only John Williams shining as a canny police detective, and only the murder scene itself breaking the tedium induced by Hitchcock's decision to shoot on a single apartment set.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, John Williams, Anthony Dawson full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 105 mins
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