Dial ‘M’ for murder: A Review

Dial ‘M’ for murder is one of the best suspense stories presented by Alfred Hitchcock and is portrayed in the best possible manner. All the thrill and suspense lovers must watch the film which involves around three people, two men and a
woman.

It is the story of a murder plot set against a house wife, who previously had an affair with a man, who was later revealed as her husband’s friend.

The story starts with a person known as ‘Mark’ is invited by the couple for a dinner. As he arrives, he finds her husband ‘Jack’ out of the house. The woman, ‘Mary’ is forced to accompany her old lover and in doing so they revive memories from their past.

After a while, Jack was back and pretended as he was unaware of the whole scenario. He deliberately sent his wife at a theatre with Mark and during her absence called his schoolmate to come over and see him.

Jack, along with Mr. Lasgate, planned Mary’s murder in a manner that all the suspicion would go on an unknown burglar, who entered the house through an open window.

A day later, Lasgate entered through the door, as planned by Jack but was himself killed by Mary in self defence.

As Jack enters the house, he gets a shock at seeing Lasgate’s dead body and acts as if he feels sorry at the whole situation. He gradually starts to remove all the evidences before calling the police.

Jack asks Mary to go inside the bedroom and prepares a robbery scene before the arrival of police. With the arrival of inspector, Jack acts positively to ensure his safety from all this twist.

At first, the suspicion went straight towards Mary and the police accuse her of committing suicide and then making this story to cover her sin. As a result, she is taken to the court where she gets a death sentence for her crime.

Now, will Mary be hanged or will the actual planner be revealed in front of the audiences, it is up to you people to decide for yourself by watching this thriller.

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Posted by Taha Habib on Nov 14 2011. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry