Dial M for Murder (1954)

History From The Back Pages · Apr 28, 2022 · 15m

For this week's episode, I chose to review The film Dial M for Murder, a highly acclaimed classic crime thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the wildly successful Broadway play by Frederick Knott.

The plot revolves around a retired English tennis player named Tony Wendice who discovers his wife Margot, a wealthy socialite, is having an affair with a crime fiction writer named Mark Halliday. Tony then plans the perfect murder to remove his wife from the picture and inherit her vast fortune.

The film stars legendary actor Ray Milland as Tony Wendice, the highly talented Academy Award…