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Dial M for Murder (1954)

Name: Dial M for Murder
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: drama film, action film, crime film
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 8.1

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.

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Behind the scenes

Martin Scorsese on "Dial M for Murder" — Oscars · 3 min
Dial M for Murder (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock — 10 Second Film School · 8 min
Leonard Maltin On DIAL M FOR MURDER — American Film Institute · 2 min

Elsewhere

More by Alfred Hitchcock

Woman to Woman — 1923
Always Tell Your Wife — 1923
The White Shadow — 1924
The Passionate Adventure — 1924
The Pleasure Garden — 1925
The Mountain Eagle — 1926
Downhill — 1927
The Ring — 1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog — 1927
Easy Virtue — 1927
The Farmer's Wife — 1928
Champagne — 1928
Blackmail — 1929
Juno and the Paycock — 1929
The Manxman — 1929
Elstree Calling — 1930
An Elastic Affair — 1930
Murder! — 1930
The Skin Game — 1931
Rich and Strange — 1931
Mary — 1931
Number Seventeen — 1932
The Man Who Knew Too Much — 1934
Waltzes from Vienna — 1934
The 39 Steps — 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Secret Agent — 1935
Sabotage — 1936
Secret Agent — 1936
Young and Innocent — 1937
Jamaica Inn — 1939

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