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Dial M for Murder
1954
***½
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Patrick Allen

A thriller about a retired tennis player who devises a foolproof plan to murder his cheating wife. The story is set almost entirely in one apartment, but Hitchcock somehow manages to make this stagy and conventional mystery entertaining. Adapted from Frederick Knott's play. Remade as A Perfect Murder in 1998.