Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder
Playwright Frederick Knott adapted his own hit stage thriller for Alfred Hitchcock’s only 3D movie. Ray Milland is Tony Wendice, a retired tennis player who blackmails a shady school chum to murder his unfaithful wife (Grace Kelly, in the first of her three films for Hitchcock). Anthony Dawson and John Williams reprised their roles from the original Broadway production, and Hitchcock, working with his Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Burks (To Catch a Thief), kept faithful to the material’s stage origins while making subtle use of the 3D format.
DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock. WRITTEN BY: Frederick Knott. WITH: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams. 1954. 105 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG. 3D. DCP.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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