This article is about a 1954 American film. For the band, see Dial M for Murder! For the episode of Sunday Night Theatre, see Dial M for Murder (Sunday Night Theatre).
Dial M for Murder
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by
Frederick Knott
Based on
Dial M for Murder 1952 play by Frederick Knott
Produced by
Alfred Hitchcock
Starring
Ray Milland Grace Kelly Robert Cummings John Williams
Cinematography
Robert Burks
Edited by
Rudi Fehr
Music by
Dimitri Tiomkin
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release dates
May 18, 1954 (1954-05-18) (Philadelphia)[1]
May 29, 1954 (1954-05-29) (US)
Running time
105 minutes[2]
Country
United States[2]
Language
English
Budget
$1.4 million
Box office
$6 million[3]
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock,[4] 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. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television,[5] before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York's Broadway in October.
Originally intended to be shown in dual-strip polarized 3-D, the film played in most theatres in ordinary 2-D due to the loss of interest in the 3-D process (the projection of which was difficult and error-prone) by the time of its release.[6] The film earned an estimated $2.7 million in North American box office sales in 1954.[7]
^"Dial M for Murder - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
^ ab"Dial M for Murder". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on September 4, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
^"Box Office Information for Dial M for Murder". The Numbers. April 14, 2012.
^"Dial M for Murder (1954)". BFI. Archived from the original on November 3, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
^"Dial M for Murder". IMDb.
^Bob Furmanek and Greg Kintz. "An In-Depth Look at DIAL M FOR MURDER". 3-D Film Archive. Archived from the original on May 25, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
^"1954 Boxoffice Champs". Variety. January 5, 1955. p. 59. Retrieved April 22, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
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