Dial 'M' for Murder. Full-Length Play, Melodrama / 1f, 5m Frederick Knott. This exciting melodrama had a highly successful run on Broadway and the road. " original and remarkably good theatre—quiet in style but tingling with excitement underneath.". · Best known as a film by Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder was first a successful stage play written by another English master of suspense, Frederick Knott (Wait Until Dark). In this production of the classic thriller, Tony Wendice plans to murder his unfortunate wife to claim her fortune for himself. He arranges for the perfect crime but things don’t quite go according to plan. DIAL "M" FOR MURDER is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice wants to have his wealthy wife, Margot, murdered so he can get his hands on her inheritance. When he discovers her affair with Mark Halliday, he .
Summary. Tony Wendice has married his wife, Margot, for her money and now plans to murder her for the same reason. He arranges the perfect murder. He blackmails a scoundrel he used to know into strangling her for a fee of one thousand pounds, and arranges a brilliant alibi for himself. Unfortunately the murderer gets murdered and the victim. Dial M for Murder is a well chosen vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock, very similar to Rope. A suspense thriller set in the London flat of married couple Ray Milland and Grace Kelly, it had a very successful run on Broadway, performances from to Frederick Knott, a playwright whose short but admirable string of credits included two long-running Broadway shows -- "Dial M for Murder" in and "Wait Until Dark" in -- died of.
Dial M for Murder is a American crime mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams. Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. Best known as a film by Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder was first a successful stage play written by another English master of suspense, Frederick Knott (Wait Until Dark). In this production of the classic thriller, Tony Wendice plans to murder his unfortunate wife to claim her fortune for himself. He arranges for the perfect crime but things don’t quite go according to plan. Frederick Knott's debut play Dial M for Murder opened in London in the summer of , and in New York a few months later with slight changes to the script (for example, the M in the tide was performed in thirty countries and in , a screen version adapted by Knott and directed. by Alfred Hitchcock was released.
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