Dial M for Murder

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Dial M For Murder, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Dial M For Murder, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Dial M For Murder, 1954.

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Opening scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder, 1954, in which Margot (Grace Kelly) learns of the ship's landing, Mark (Robert Cummings) disembarks, and the story unfurls.

Grace Kelly as Margot doesn’t know the home intruder she killed was blackmailed by her husband Tony (Ray Milland) into killing her, and he’s improvising on his carefully prepared story as London detective Hubbard (John Williams) probes for inconsistencies, Alfred Hitchcock directing, in Dial M For Murder,1954.

Ray Milland as alibied London husband Tony means to give Anthony Dawson, the man he’s blackmailed, the ideal moment to kill his wife Margot (Grace Kelly), luring her from the bedroom with a call from his club, director Alfred Hitchcock way into it, as she responds with unexpected ingenuity, in Dial M For Murder,1954.

Tony (Ray Milland) is ensnaring Lesgate/Swann (Anthony Dawson) in his plot to kill his wife when Alfred Hitchcock goes to the diabolical overhead shot, in Dial M For Murder, 1954, from Frederick Knott's play.

Tony (Ray Milland) hits a snag in obtaining the key from Margot (Grace Kelly) as he connives to be out with Mark (Robert Cummings) while she's killed, in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder, 1954.

An unfaithful husband frames his wife for a murder in Dial M For Murder (1954), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.