Alfred Hitchcock. Movies like Rear Window, Vertigo and North by Northwest are some of the greatest movies you will ever see. I had never seen Dial M for Murder. Starring Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, and Robert Cummings as a triangle gone wrong.
Milland plays Tony Wendice a tennis player who has met with moderate success but perhaps not enough to placate his rich wife played by Grace Kelly. She would like him to stay home and have a real job. The movie is told backwards at times. We learn that Margot Wendice has been having an affair with mystery writer Mark Halliday who is played by Robert Cummings.
Being a Hitchcock movie we expect lots of twists. The difference in this is that we know the twist. Tony wants to kill his wife. He sets this up. When this fails he makes adjustments on the fly. The pieces fit together, until they don't.
I watched this movie with my son. He appreciated the movie as well. The twists and turns of a good mystery was a new experience for him. No one will ever convince me that a Hitchcock movie without gore, language and other modern movie magic is not better than alnything you would see today.
After watching this with my son I hope he agrees.
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