Dial M for Murder
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Directed by:  Alfred Hitchcock

Written by:  Frederick Knott, as adapted from his play

Starring:  Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings & John Williams

What the box says:  Alfred Hitchcock's screen version of Frederick Knott's stage hit Dial M for Murder is a tasty blend of elegance and suspense casting Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings as the points of a romantic triangle.  Kelly won the New York Film Critics and National Board of Review Best Actress Awards for this and two other 1954 performances (Hitchcock's Rear Window and her Oscar-honored work in The Country Girl).  She loves Cummings; her husband Milland plots her murder.  But when he dials a Mayfair exchange to set the plot in motion, his right number gets the wrong answer - and gleaming scissors become a deadly weapon.  Dial "M" for the Master of Suspense at his most stylish.