Classic Film Friday: Dial M for Murder

Today is a guest blogger of sorts, it is that of my daughter, the 13-year-old... below is the opinion of her alone...

The story starts off with Mark (Robert Commings) and Margot (Grace Kelly) talking about tennis and the secret letters they have writing over the past year. Margo tells Mark that she burned all of them but one, and that one got lost at a train station. Mark And Margot set off to go to the movies while Tony (Ray Milland), Margot‘s husband stays home to do some “work”. He calls an old friend from college to come by to discuss the price of his car that was for sale. Tony wants Swan (Anthony Dawson) to murder his wife because he was jealous of her relationship with Mark.

To me it seems like Tony has some issues with his wife. Tony and Swan plan for the murder while Tony and Mark were out. Margot was home alone putting together a memory book of when Tony played tennis. She went to sleep not knowing that an intruder was going to pay her a visit. She woke up to a phone ring, that’s when her intruder attacked. He tried to strangle her but had no success.

I have been waiting to see this movie since Halloween but haven’t because my father thought it was boring (not true, the opportunity just didn’t present itself). I thought the movie was funny because the audience and most of the cast knew what was going to happen to Margot. The movie to me had an uncanny twist to it. Almost like Karma. If you like to know what might possibly happens in the movie, but doesn’t, you will like this movie.