less than perfect murder

Esmeralda 2022-04-20 09:01:34

From a global perspective, the most important flaw is the key hidden under the carpet on the floor? Tony ignored his instinct and thought that the killer would hold the key until the moment he left, so instead of checking it when he got home, he put the killer's key in his wife's bag.

But from a local point of view, this film also has many unrealistic

1. The husband put the key so deliberately, and the other two people didn't notice it?

2. The detective's coat is the same as her husband's, but I didn't notice it?

3. The key? It should be different.

4. The smell of burning scarves should be more choking.

I have to say that the script of this old movie is quite good, and the constant reversal is very exciting, but the detective has always suspected that her husband felt that the intensity of the reversal has been greatly weakened, making people feel that the result is known and the process is pushed forward.

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Dial M for Murder quotes

  • Tony Wendice: [on the phone to a lawyer] We had a burglary last night, and Margot was attacked. No, she's all right. But the man was killed, and the police are here now. And don't laugh... they're suggesting that Margot killed him intentionally!

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: [interrupting Tony] I wouldn't say that if I were you, sir.

  • Mark Halliday: When did you find out, sir?

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: Well, the first clue came quite by accident.

    [to Margot]

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: We discovered that your husband had been spending a large number of pound notes all over the place - it ran into over three hundred pounds - and it appeared to have started at about the time you were arrested. Now, I had to find out where he got that money, and how. Then I remembered that after you were arrested we searched this flat, and I saw a copy of his bank statement in that desk. So yesterday afternoon, I went to the prison and asked to see your handbag. While I was doing this, I managed to lift your latchkey. Highly irregular, of course, but my blood was up. And then this morning when your husband was out, I came back here to look at his statement. I never saw it... because I never got through that door. You see, the key that I'd taken from your handbag didn't fit the lock!