Genre: Crime / Mystery / Thriller Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock Release Date: 28 May 1954 Movie rating: 8.2

A Hitchcock classic of crime mystery, “Dial M for Murder” was adapted by Frederick Knott from his own play of the same name. It stars Grace Kelly as a cheating wife, Ray Milland as her jealous, vengeful husband, and Robert Cummings as her lover. Tennis player Tony Vendice (Milland) who retires after he finds out that his beautiful, wealthy wife Margo (Kelly) is having an affair with an American crime fiction author Mark Halliday. Tony gets in touch with his former college buddy turned criminal C. A. Swann and blackmails him into agreeing to kill Margot. Tony devises a plan that would make Margot’s murder seem like a burglary gone wrong and provide him with an alibi, but the plan goes wrong and Margot kills her attacker in self defense. Tony rushes back home and plants evidence of Margot’s guilt. The police believe that Margot didn’t act in self defense, but that she actually planned to murder Swann. She is tried and sentenced to death, but one police officer begins to suspect that there’s something more to this case than meets the eye. Tony got everything he wanted. His cheating wife is in jail awaiting a death sentence, and he has all of her money at his disposal. He believes he has covered his tracks well, but will he be able to escape the inquiries of a smart, committed policeman breathing down his neck.

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