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| Dial M for Murder |
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| Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Laurent Bouzereau |
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Laurent Bouzereau, Frederick Knott |
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Alfred Hitchcock, Laurent Bouzereau |
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Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Joe Alves, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Franklin |
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Action & Adventure |
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| Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
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(NTSC ) |
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Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
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English, Spanish, French |
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| Studio: Warner Home Video |
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DVD Region: 1 |
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PG |
| DVD Release: Sep 2004 |
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Discs: (Cloud) [] |
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| Reviews: 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" |
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