Dial M for Murder

Buy This Item Dial M for Murder by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $13.99  on 11-14-2008     When American writer Mark Halliday visits the very married Margot Wendice in London, he unknowingly sets off a chain of blackmail and murder. After sensing Margot's affections for Halliday, her husband, Tony Wendice, fears divorce and disinheritance, and plots her death. <BR /><BR />Knowing former school chum Captain Lesgate is involved in illegal activities, Tony blackmails him into conspiring to kill Margot. When she kills Lesgate in self-defense, Tony implicates her as being guilty of premeditated murder. Halliday must out-stratagize Tony to save Margot's live.<br />Running Time: 105 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Reader Reviews Suspense and mystery - this Alfred Hitchcock movie has it all! Unlike some of Hitchcock's other films were he builds it up for all the action at the end of the movie, Dial M For Murder's action all takes place at the beginning of the movie. Grace Kelly was Hitchcock's favorite actress and he had already starred her in "Rear Window" earlier that year before casting her as Margot Wendice in "Dial M For Murder." He also used Robert Cummings (who he had previously worked with in 1942's "Saboteur") as Mark Halliday, the American bookwriter and Margot's boyfriend. When the story starts, you witness Tony (Ray Milland), Margot's husband, going through every intricate detail in the cruel plans for his wife's murder, with the man he has hired to kill her. Tony's plot: the evening of the day he has planned to murder her, he will go out. It will be getting late so Margot will be going to bed. He will call their house, Margot will get out of bed, walk throught the living room to the desk at the far end of the wall near the windows. The hired killer will be standing behind the curtains, and when she steps behind the desk to pick up the phone, he will come behind her and throw a piece of rope around her neck and strangle her. As Tony is going through the plans, he gives the killer directions of exactly how he is going to get in the house and exactly how he is going to leave. Pay careful attention to everything he says about the latchkey - it's the main clue to solving the whole thing. The evening of the murder arrives. Tony goes out and Margot goes to bed - everything is going as planned so far. At the appointed time, Tony calls the house...you hear the phone ring...you see the light go on at the bottom of Margot's door (this is were the suspense starts to mount)...you hear the door click...then you see Margot walking towards the desk (and her doom?)...She picks up the phone, "Hello"...no answer..."Hello?"...Suddenly you see a rope get thrown around her neck. There's silence as he tries to strangle her. Then she's lying on the desk, trying to breath. She's reaching, reaching...and suddenly she grasps them - a pair of gleaming scissors - and plunges them into her assailants back. But what will happen? Will the merciless Tony get away with her would-be murder? What will happen to Margot? Will she be blamed for defending herself?

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