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Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams. Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in…
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Year: 1954 Category: Crime. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, George Leigh. Margot Mary Wendice is a rich woman who is married to Tony Wendice, an English professional tennis player, while she has an affair with Mark Halliday, an American crime-fiction writer, from whom she received letters from America, now one of th…More
