Dial M for Murder

This is a great movie but it has a few drawbacks. Most young people will have problem appreciating it as you'll see in the reviews below. I would've guessed most people who watched this movie has an idea what they were going to get, but some got off somehow. It has far more dialogue, detail, intelligence and far less violence or action than current thrillers. This movie demands much attention even by standards from those old detective/police movies as Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Chritie's, etc. No wonder one reviewer said this product didn't get much mouth-to-mouth recommendations. But for me this is challenging. It's incredible how prefectionist people were back then without the countless "top ten..." from today, as many critics as today, althoug this particular product might have a minor few mistakes.

Maybe you have already read summaries of this movie from the editorials or spotlighs, so you're already aware the movie starts by introducing a marriage in trouble where the wife (Margot M. Wendice) is cheating with a writer (Mark Halliday) while the husband (Tony Wendice) is well aware..... and planning how to make profits rather than get revenge. The he begins his master with a huge degree of elegance that doesn't help to make it work in real life as someone tells him...."easy on paper, not on reality" There's some good suspense meanwhile but the challenge for the public starts when police does its investigation. Here's where the movie has some minor mistakes:
Tony tells the police he didn't know what time he called his wife, but later the police finds out he did know because Mark says Tony had asked the time. Besides, Tony never clarifies why he called his wife. Anyway Tony creates a lot of confusion to get away. Then the challenge is catch him and the movie gets even more interesting.
Finally, one more thing I enjoyed was not hearing the ridiculous words like "bloody" that are endlessly repeated in many other movies with British characters.

Recently I have noticed that I enjoy the older movies. I bought Dial M for Murder because I had heard how good it was. The comparisons between the plot of that murder mystery and the typical murder mystery of today is that this one was a little less predictable. As the story evolves you have an idea what is going to happen, but it still keeps you on the edge of your seat, until it actually happens. Definitely worth adding to your collection.

it was a dvd we had seen the play recently of dial m for murder and wanted to get the dvd . arrived quickly and great.

This dvd have lots of subtitles.But also there are UNREMOVABLE english subtitles, and even if you select the english subtitles, you got them over the old ones.
For the worst, the unremovable sutitles are white on black box, so most of the lower part of the screen its covered with the subt box.
Very bad production for this release.

terrible scripted movie with lot of holes. but once i got to see the 'perfect murder' by mike douglas and g. paltrow, all the holes had been patched nicely. i simply could not stand to watch this old movie with patience since it got so many holes and horrible scenes in it. i didn't and won't fall for a movie just because it's done by the old master and this one simply sucks big time.