Event Listing - Movies

Fri Mar 7 - Mon Mar 10

Dial M for Murder (1954)

Location	Date and Time
Stanford Theatre 221 University Ave Palo Alto, CA 94301 district: Palo Alto	Fri Mar 7 (5:35 PM, 9:25 PM) Sat Mar 8 (5:35 PM, 9:25 PM) Sun Mar 9 (5:35 PM, 9:25 PM) Mon Mar 10 (5:35 PM, 9:25 PM)

Description

NR | 01:45 | Suspense/Thriller

Quintessential cool blonde (and Hitchcock favorite) Grace Kelly stars as a society woman around whom jealous husband Ray Milland arranges the perfect murder. But thanks to a well-placed pair of scissors, the tables are turned and Milland's carefully-laid plans begin to disintegrate. Hitchcock used a rapid 36-day shooting schedule, and was dismissive of 3-D itself (A nine-day wonder, and I came in on the ninth day). He refused to open out the hit play by Frederick Knott (author of another masterpiece of unknown terror, Wait Until Dark), confining the action except the determinedly unrealistic trial scene to one set, and setting his cameras in a pit to get low-angle shots designed to emphasize depth and giving the film a theatricality and claustrophobia à la Rope and Rear Window, only on this stage the proscenium doesn't end at the screen, it extends into the audience. 3-D is most effectively used in the murder sequence, which takes on new and greater significance as the viewer is placed in the midst of the struggle: a voyeuristic accomplice to murder as only Hitchcock could have planned.

Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Produced by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Frederick Knott