Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American thriller film adapted from a successful stage play by Frederick Knott, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings. The movie was released by the Warner Bros. studio. The screenplay and the stage play on which it was based were both written by English playwright Frederick Knott, whose work often focused on women who innocently become the potential victims of sinister plots. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC television, before being performed on the stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New... York's Broadway in October. The single setting in the stage play is the living-room of the Wendices' flat in London . Hitchcock's film adds a second setting in a gentleman's club, a few views of the street outside, and a stylized courtroom montage. Having seen the play on Broadway, Cary Grant was keen to play the role of Tony Wendice, but studio chiefs did not feel the public would accept him as a man who arranges to have his wife murdered.
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| Release date: | May 29, 1954 |
| Directed by: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alfred Hitchcock, William Hill |
| Editor: | Rudi Fehr |
| Music by: | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Cinematography: | Robert Burks |
| Screenplay by: | Frederick Knott |
| Estimated budget: | $1,400,000 |
| Adapted from: | Dial M for Murder |
| Genre: | Thriller |