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Dial M for Murder [VHS]
enlarge	Director: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson Studio: Warner Home Video List Price: ~~$14.98~~ Buy New: $4.95 as of 5/21/2012 23:22 CDT details You Save: $10.03 (67%) In Stock New (22) Used (37) Collectible (4) from $1.00 Seller: bananabookhouse Sales Rank: 178,020 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC Language: English (Unknown) Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: VHS Tape Discs: 1 Running Time: 105 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1 ISBN: 6304039530 UPC: 085391442233 EAN: 9780790727233 Release Date: June 18, 1996 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.com A suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is having an affair with a writer (Robert Cummings). Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for improvisation. Alfred Hitchcock wisely stuck to the stage origins of Dial M for Murder, ignoring the temptation to "open up" the material from the home of the unhappy couple. The result may not be one of Hitchcock's deepest films, but it's a thoroughly engaging chamber movie. It also features Grace Kelly at her loveliest, the same year she made Rear Window with Hitchcock. Dial M for Murder was filmed in the briefly trendy 3-D process, and Hitchcock shot some scenes to bring out the depth of the 3-D field; it's especially good for the nail-biting attempted murder of Kelly, and her desperate reach for a pair of scissors that seems to be just outside her grasp. However, the film was rarely shown with the proper 3-D projection, going out "flat" instead (a 1980 reissue restored the process for a limited theatrical release). Dial M was remade in 1998 as A Perfect Murder, a film that changed and expanded the material, with no improvement on the clean, witty original. --Robert Horton

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