Tag: Dial M for Murder
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Thrillers Owe a Great Debt to Cary Grant
While Alfred Hitchcock is best known for the classic films of his late career, such as Psycho, Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, Vertigo, and Rope, Hitchcock had actually been making films since the 1920s. While the British films he made during the first two decades of his career are no less brilliant than his…
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Why Cary Grant Had To Turn Down Dial M For Murder
Alfred Hitchcock is behind several decades’ worth of celebrated films, but some of the English director’s best works were adaptations of stage plays. “Dial M For Murder” was one such adaptation, based on Frederick Knott’s Broadway hit concerning an affair, a murder plot, and the trial that followed. Meticulously plotted and visually sparse, the thriller…
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‘Dial M For Murder’ TV Show Being Developed as Anthology Series, May Star Alicia Vikander
I once suggested that Hollywood should remake Dial M For Murder, playwright Frederick Knott’s dynamite stage play which was famously adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Three years later, my suggestion is finally being heeded: a remake is being developed for television, with Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander executive producing and potentially…
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Bill Gold, Iconic Master of the Movie Poster, Dies at 97
Bill Gold, who revolutionized the art of the movie poster over a seven-decade career that began with Casablanca and included A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist and dozens of Clint Eastwood films, has died. He was 97.Gold died at his home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, on Sunday, according to family spokeswomen Christine Gillow.The Brooklyn native began…