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Dial M for Murder
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Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American black-and-white film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by Frederick Knott, with Dimitri Tiomkin composing the music. The cast includes Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, and John Williams. The film was produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix, and Fandango at Home.
Set in London, the movie falls under the genres of crime, mystery, detective, and thriller, with capital punishment as its main subject. It has a runtime of 101 or 105 minutes, depending on the source. The production had a budget of 1,400,000 and generated revenue of 3,000,000. The film received an average rating of 8.001 from 2,849 votes on TMDb and 8.1 from 205,009 votes on IMDb. A derivative work titled Aitbaar was also produced.
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8.0When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
Cast
- Ray Milland as Tony Wendice
- Grace Kelly as Margot Wendice
- Robert Cummings as Mark Halliday
- John Williams as Chief Inspector Hubbard
- Anthony Dawson as Charles Swann
- Leo Britt as Storyteller
Themes
- adultery
- london, england
- jealousy
- blackmail
- detective
- tennis player
- marriage
- letter
- love
- murder
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay by
- Frederick Knott
- Based on
- Dial M for Murder , 1952 play, by Frederick Knott
- Produced by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Starring
- Ray Milland , Grace Kelly , Robert Cummings , John Williams
- Cinematography
- Robert Burks
- Edited by
- Rudi Fehr
- Music by
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Production company
- Warner Bros.
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release dates
- May 18, 1954 ( 1954-05-18 ) (Philadelphia) May 29, 1954 ( 1954-05-29 ) (US)
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.4 million
- Box office
- $6.1 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams. Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York City's Broadway in October.
Originally intended to be shown in dual-strip polarized three dimensions (3-D), the film played in most cinemas in ordinary two dimensions (2-D) owing to the loss of interest in the 3-D process (the projection of which was difficult and error-prone) by the time of its release. The film earned an estimated $2.7 million in North American box-office sales in 1954.
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