Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 12

Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock classic)

Cast: Ray Millard, Grace Kelly (beauty queen of 50’s era), Robert Cummings and John Williams

The 12th movie we are going to talk about is one of the may classics that Alfred Hitchcock has directed which even though was a decent hit and is among IMDB top 250 movies but has not been recognized the way other Hitchcock classics have been like Psycho or Vertigo or Rear Window but this movie is equally good and those who have already watched this may rate it over all the other highly rated Hitchcock movies.

It’s a Crime Mystery film set in 50’s America about Tony (Ray Miller) who realizes that his wife Margot (Grace Kelly) is having an affair with writer Mark (Robert Cummings) and decides for a revenge against her by plotting her murder and ensuring he gets all of her money.

Tony invites a small time criminal Swann (Anthony Johnson) to his apartment who has been his old acquaintance and blackmails him into murdering Margot. Tony offers to pay him an handsome money if he agrees and if he doesn’t he will turn him into a police as Margot’s blackmailer by handing them the letter which he retrieved from her handbag six months bag which now has finger prints of Swann. He reluctantly agrees in killing him and Tony tells him a perfect plot where he will take Mark to a party which would leave Margot Alone at home and will hide the key to the house outside the front door just under the staircase. Swann will sneak into the house and hide behind the curtains and Tony will phone her from the party at a specific time and at the very moment when she answers the phone Swann must kill her, open the French door, create a scene which would look like burglary gone wrong and exit through the front door hiding the key at the exact same place.

Based on this perfect plan, all the things goes well the very next night and as soon as Tony calls Margot from the party but when Swann strangles her with scarf she manages to catch hold of scissors and kills him accidentally. She pleads for help from Tony who immediately comes back and calls the police. Realizing his plan has failed Tony plots a new plan by placing the latchkey from Swann’s pocket into Margot handbag, plants Mark letter on Swann and destroying his Scarf to entrap her in killing.

Now has the plot perfectly worked against Margot? If yes, will she be pleaded guilty on having an affair with an unknown man and in-turn killing him which would result in her being sentenced to death? If yes, will Mark be able to help her realizing something is fishy in the story of Tony as he immediately left the party. Seems Tony’s backup spontaneous plan is too good not to be true but this is Alfred Hitchcock guys, the master of all thriller movies. We would recommend this 105 minutes roller coaster ride as our next lesser known movie.

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