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Dial M for Murder (1954)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Robert Burks · Cut by Rudi Fehr · Music by Dimitri Tiomkin · 101 min
How it was made
- Hitchcock scrapped his planned Transatlantic Pictures production The Bramble Bush after its script and budget proved unworkable, dissolving his partnership with Sidney Bernstein and moving to Dial M for Murder at Warner Bros. instead.
- According to biographer Donald Spoto, Hitchcock stayed calm through a production he was not enthusiastic about only because he was already preparing his next film, Rear Window.
- Actors Anthony Dawson and John Williams reprised their original Broadway roles as Swann/Captain Lesgate and Inspector Hubbard for the film.
- The character later known as Mark was named Max Halliday in the original stage play before the change for the film.
- Hitchcock's cameo appears thirteen minutes into the film as a black-and-white photograph on the wall, showing him seated at a class reunion banquet.
Behind the scenes
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