Ray Milland plays a tennis star who finds out about his wife’s (Grace Kelly) affair with an American novelist (Robert Cummings). He then elaborately plots her murder by hiring a killer. When the attempted murder goes wrong, he twists the story to incriminate her.

Based on a successful stage play and originally meant to be screened in cinemas in 3-D, Dial M for Murder features a romping plot, a gloriously slimy villain and some of the weirdest, tricksiest camera work of Hitchcock’s career.

“Hitch has a field day with his camera angles, darting our eyes now here, now there, doing tingling tricks with shadows and long longshots in quick contrast to fuzzed close-ups. It’s the work of a master enjoying his script.” — The Washington Post