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Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder
Score: 9.5 / 10
Released: April 9, 1981
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
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Cast: Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, George Leigh, George Alderson, Robin Hughes
Genre: Drama
Length: 105 minutes

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Dial M for Murder Synopsis

Quintessential cool blonde (and Hitchcock favorite) Grace Kelly stars as a society woman around whom jealous husband Ray Milland arranges the perfect murder. But thanks to a well-placed pair of scissors, the tables are turned and Milland's carefully-laid plans begin to disintegrate. Hitchcock used a rapid 36-day shooting schedule, and was dismissive of 3-D itself ("A nine-day wonder, and I came in on the ninth day"). He refused to open out the hit play by Frederick Knott (author of another masterpiece of unknown terror, Wait Until Dark), confining the action ­ except the determinedly unrealistic trial scene ­ to one set, and setting his cameras in a pit to get low-angle shots designed to empha depth and giving the film a theatricality and claustrophobia à la Rope and Rear Window, only on this stage the proscenium doesn't end at the screen, it extends into the audience. 3-D is most effectively used in the murder sequence, which takes on new and greater significance as the viewer is placed in the midst of the struggle: a voyeuristic accomplice to murder as only Hitchcock could have planned.

Showtimes

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1  Ajax Cineplex Cinemas
248 Kingston Road East, Ajax,
(905) 426-7772

Mon 7:10  
Tue 7:00 9:35  
Thu 9:50  

2  Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
 (42.86km) 3555 Highway 7 West, Vaughan,
(905) 851-1001

Mon 4:15 9:45  
Tue 10:00  
Thu 10:10  

3  Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Dundas (AMC Yonge & Dundas)
 (37.18km) 10 Dundas Street East, Toronto,
(416) 977-9262

Mon 4:20 9:30  
Tue 6:45 9:30  
Wed 4:15 10:30  
Thu 10:00  

4  Cineplex Odeon Eglinton Town Centre Cinemas
 (26.83km) 22 Lebovic Avenue, Scarborough,
(416) 752-4494

Mon - Tue 6:50 9:30  
Wed 4:10  
Thu 3:50 10:00  

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