ON THIS DATE (60 YEARS AGO) May 29, 1954: “Dial M for Murder,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller, opens in theaters across the US. 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 Londons West End in June, and then New Yorks Broadway in October. The single setting in the stage play is the living-room of the Wendices flat in London (61A Charrington Gardens, Maida Vale). Hitchcocks film adds a second setting in a gentlemans 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. In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its Ten Top Ten list—the best ten films in ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Dial M for Murder was ranked the ninth best film in the mystery genre. Alfred Hitchcock #AlfredHitchcock Alfred Hitchcock TV
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