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Dial M for Murder (1954)
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An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. Director:Alfred Hitchcock |
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George Leigh | ... | |
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George Alderson | ... | |
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In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
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Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 20, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$1,400,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$12,562 (USA) (11 April 1999) (1 Screen) (reissue)Gross:
$12,562 (USA) (11 April 1999) (re-issue)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Margot Mary Wendice: let me get you another drink. Mark, before Tony comes I ought to explain something.
Mark Halliday: Yes, I've been waiting for that.
Margot Mary Wendice: I haven't told him anything about us.
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marking is replaced by a single large M which forms the single M of the
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Shot in 36 days: August 5-September 25 1953. See more »Goofs
Continuity: Before Tony and Mark leave for the stag party, Tony walks to the window and closes the curtains while talking to Margot. After they argue over her going out, he walks back to the window, we see the curtains are open, and he closes them again. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Margot Mary Wendice: let me get you another drink. Mark, before Tony comes I ought to explain something.
Mark Halliday: Yes, I've been waiting for that.
Margot Mary Wendice: I haven't told him anything about us.
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The title is shown on a background of a British telephone dial; its MN/6marking is replaced by a single large M which forms the single M of the
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