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Dial M for Murder is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in USA on 29 may 1954 with Ray Milland

Dial M for Murder (1954)

Dial M for Murder
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Released in USA 29 may 1954
Length 1h45
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating81% 4.0985754.0985754.0985754.0985754.098575

Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings. The screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were both written by English playwright Frederick Knott, whose work often focused on women who innocently become the potential victims of sinister plots. 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's Broadway in October.
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Synopsis

Tony Wendice (Ray Milland), an ex-professional tennis player, lives in a ground floor flat with his socialite wife, Margot (Grace Kelly). Tony retired after Margot complained about his busy schedule and she began an affair with American crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), which Tony secretly discovered. Tony devises a plan to have Margot murdered.

Actors

Ray Milland

(Tony Wendice)
Grace Kelly

(Margot Wendice)
Robert Cummings

(Mark Halliday)
John Williams

(Chief Inspector Hubbard)
Anthony Dawson

(Charles Swann)
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