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DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) – Warner Bros. – Rating: ★★★★
Color – 105 minutes – 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Principal cast: Ray Milland (Tony Wendice), Grace Kelly (Margot Wendice), Robert Cummings (Mark Halliday), Anthony Dawson (Lesgate/Swann), John Williams (Chief Inspector Hubbard).
Produced and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Frederick Knott, based on his play
Director of Photography: Robert Burks
Film Editing: Rudi Fehr
Original Score: Dmitri Tiomkin
We open on an idyllic marriage scene, in a small but well-furnished London flat, the happy wedded couple locked in a kiss. Cut to the same married couple, eating breakfast. The wife is reading a small notice in the newspaper, about an American author due to arrive in England on the Queen Mary that day. Cut to attractive man disembarking from the Queen Mary. Cut to this attractive man, locked in a kiss with the wife, in the same London flat we just witnessed a moment ago! Alfred Hitchcock, who got his start in silent films, and never lost his flair for visual storytelling, has given us a complete set-up to the story in two minutes, with no dialogue.
The wife, Margot Wendice, and the author, Mark Halliday, had a fling the previous year, when Mark was last in Lon
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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 film by Alfred Hitchcock
For other uses, see Shadow of a Doubt (disambiguation).
Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thrillerfilm noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell.
The story follows Charlotte "Charlie" Newton and her family who live in very quiet Santa Rosa, California. An unexpected visit by Charles Oakley, her charming and sophisticated Uncle Charlie, brings much excitement to the family and the small town. That excitement turns to fear as young Charlie slowly realizes her uncle is in fact a wanted serial murderer known as the "Merry Widow" killer. The fear escalates when Oakley realizes she knows his secret.
In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3][4] Hitchcock's favorite of all his films, Shadow of a Doubt was also the one he enjoyed making the most.
Plot
[edit]Charles Oakley spots two detectives outside his Newark, New Jersey hotel room and gives them the slip.