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12 Angry Men, 1957
A Time to kill, 1996
Awakenings, 1990
Dead Man Walking, 1995
Dial M for Murder, 1954
Jungle Book,1967
Music of the Heart, 1999

A League of Their Own
The Wedding Planner
The Lion King
Hope Floats
Jesus of Nazareth
A Knights Tale
A Beautiful Mind
American Pie

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Dial M for Murder Trailer

This is the original Dial M for Murder movie trailer.

Dial M for Murder (1954)

Opening credits for Dial M for Murder, starring Grace Kelly and directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Indie & arthouse films: 'Dial M for Murder,' now in 3-D

16.09.11

 "DIAL M FOR MURDER" IN 3-D  
Starts Friday, Cinema 21

In the 1950s, Hollywood panicked at the mushrooming popularity of television. Fearing that folks would stay at home every night and watch a handful of channels on a tiny black-and-white screen, executives cast about for something the movies could offer that TV couldn't. Exponentially bigger screens? Superior storytelling? The most glamorous stars? How about 3-D? Now there was the future! After all, 3-D television could never become a reality, right?

The 3-D boom faded fairly quickly, but not before the highly reluctant likes of Alfred Hitchcock had been persuaded to make 3-D movies. In the 1954 "Dial M for Murder," Warner Bros. scrapped a wide 3-D release, so the 2-D version (filmed in color) of this double-cross murder mystery is the one people know and love. However, the 3-D negatives were preserved, and now we can see the film in the form it was originally intended. In the Hitchcock canon, "Dial

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Dial M for Murder 1954 - Bookshelf


Dial "M" for Murder
79 pages 		Dial "M" for Murder

Creator: Frederick Knott | Drama - 1954-10-01
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Dial M for murder, screen play
116 pages 		Dial M for murder, screen play

Creator: Alfred Hitchcock, Frederick Knott | 1954

Dial M for Murder 1954 - News


DIAL 'M' FOR MURDER Opens 5/4 at Town Players
Broadway World - Dec 31, 1969
Written by Frederick Knott, DIAL "M" FOR MURDER was first presented onstage at the Westminster Theatre, London, on June 19, 1952. It was later adapted for the 1954 silver screen version by the one and only Alfred Hitchcock and starred Ray Milland,

Now on DVD, 'Something to Live For' and 'Bird of Paradise'
New York Times - Dec 31, 1969
When Thaxter kills, she does so with a blatantly phallic pair of scissors, a detail that now has acquired Hitchcockian resonance thanks to a similarly staged killing in Hitchcock's “Dial M for Murder” (1954). It's more than likely that Hitchcock saw

The Ten Best Audrey Hepburn Movies by Farr
Huffington Post - Dec 31, 1969
Audrey ventures into edgy territory in Terence Young's Wait Until Dark, based on the stage play by Frederick Knott (writer of Dial M for Murder). The Oscar-nominated actress excels in the role of a sightless woman fighting for her life in a basement

CinemaCon: 3D's new dimension
Variety - Dec 31, 1969
CinemaCon: 3D's new dimension When making "Hugo," the helmer had his production team watch Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 3D thriller "Dial M for Murder." "It was this whole other approach to something that was not a horror genre, that was literally a stage play in 3D," he said.

Río de Janeiro, próxima parada de 'Españoles en el mundo'
El País.com (España) - Dec 31, 1969
Dial M for murder. EE UU, 1954 (105 m.). Dir.: Alfred Hitchcock. Int.: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, John Williams. El intento de asesinato de la esposa de un excampeón de tenis da pie a una investigación que fijará su atención sobre el marido como