Dial M For Murder (1954)

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Rating: 3.5

Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Osbourne, and other Turner Classic Movie MVP's regard this Hitchcock thriller as one of his best while noting that Hitch himself would consider it as one of his minor works. I'm going to have to side with the Master of Suspense on this one as all he did was take a really good, tight play and film it (he said himself that's what he did!). It's got the Hitch touches and no one could have probably pulled it off so well, but it does lack a lot of the visual excitment of his other works. Really nice performances, though, and--this credit goes to the play--an interesting, exciting story.