There must be a crime behind the wealth: "Phone Murder" (1954)

Everett 2022-03-16 09:01:03

In the plot, there are marriages, extramarital affairs, greed for money, revenge, exploitation and murder. Tony left a sly and smiling man in my heart at the beginning. He is trying to figure out the old classmate Shi Wang's Banban. When I threatened him to be the murderer of his wife after his bad deeds, I was thinking that this man wouldn't have to do this even when he found out that he was raped, right? He doesn't seem to love Margot that much, which shows that his character must not be so noble, although many people feel that they do not understand or even hate the three views of this story. But this may be the reality, a man will indeed feel hurt and humiliated when he realizes that he is green, but if he loves this person, he will not take such a sinister and extreme way or even take advantage of other people's weaknesses, isn't it a small thing Human logic? He thinks he has arranged everything wisely, but the reality is different from detective novels. At least the third boy, Mark, is really in love with the heroine Margot. He can't say which side he should support. The tortuous and dark humorous case has developed like this, and the mistress and the heroine may just be lucky. After all, these people seem to be not gentlemen in the strict sense. I foolishly think that such three views actually exist in everyone's subconscious, but sometimes the rationality of a gentleman overcomes selfishness.

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  • Filiberto 2022-04-23 07:01:41

    "Key to key" (hee hee)! How did Hitchcock do it? Although the whole book has the texture of the case, aka babble, but at the last moment, my heart went up in my throat, it was too awesome! The orderly life and etiquette of the middle class is to put an end to all acts of disrupting order, including deliberate murder, poof! Even how a dollar is spent is a clue XD In the end, the male protagonist still pretends to be calm under the constraints of such etiquette. Hahaha!

  • Aron 2022-03-23 09:01:40

    The story is beautiful and the language of the film is impeccable. Those so-called flaws basically did not understand the details conveyed in the lines. The husband was not only jealous, but also from the speed at which he repaid the debt afterward, it could be seen that he was still very short of money. Those in the comments who think cheating should be damned are really chilling, cheating is just a moral issue, murder and framing are sins

Dial M for Murder quotes

  • Mark Halliday: [to Margot] Darling, I understand now, but that doesn't stop me from loving you.

  • C.A. Swan: Where's the nearest police station?

    Tony Wendice: Opposite the church, two minutes walk.

    C.A. Swan: Suppose I walk there now.

    Tony Wendice: What would you tell them?

    C.A. Swan: Everything.

    Tony Wendice: Everything? All about "Mr. Adams" and "Mr. Wilson"?

    C.A. Swan: I should simply tell them that you're trying to blackmail me into...

    Tony Wendice: ...Into?

    C.A. Swan: ...murdering your wife.

    Tony Wendice: [chuckles] I almost wish you would. When she heard that we'd have the biggest laugh of our lives.

    C.A. Swan: Aren't you forgetting something?

    Tony Wendice: Am I?

    C.A. Swan: You've told me quite a lot tonight.

    Tony Wendice: [scoffs] What of it?

    C.A. Swan: Suppose I tell them how you followed her to that studio in Chelsea and watched them cooking spaghetti and all that rubbish. Wouldn't that ring a bell?

    Tony Wendice: Oh, it certainly would. They'd assume you followed her there yourself.

    C.A. Swan: Me? Why should I?

    Tony Wendice: Why should you steal her handbag? Why should you write her all those blackmail notes? Can you prove you didn't? You certainly can't prove I did. It'll be a straight case of your word against mine.

    C.A. Swan: That'd puzzle them, wouldn't it? What could you say?

    Tony Wendice: I should simply say that you came here tonight, half-drunk, and tried to borrow money on the strength that we were at college together. When I refused, you mentioned something about a letter belonging to my wife. As far as I could make out, you were trying to sell it to me. I gave you what money I had, and you gave me the letter. It has your fingerprints on it, remember? Then you said if I went to the police you'd tell some crazy story about my wanting you to murder my wife. Before you go any further, old boy, do consider the inconvenience. You see, I'm quite well known, and there'd be pictures of you as well. And sooner or later there'd be a deputation of landladies and lodgers who would step forward and testify as to your character. And someone is almost certain to have seen you with Miss Wallace. You were careful not to be seen around with her, I noticed. You usually met in out-of-the-way places where you wouldn't be recognized.