Friday, October 10, 2014

Dial M for Murder (1954)

Second viewing; first seen between 1983 and 1986.

A man devises a plan to murder his wife, in order to get her money. His plan makes use of her past adultery with a writer of crime novels.

This is not like John Lennon's narrow definition of life ("what happens to you while you are making plans"). Here, instead, life includes not only the planning itself but adapting to plans gone wrong. Well, trying to adapt anyway. Regarding the plot, some people on IMDB have protested that it would be preferrable to make a third copy of the key (and thus have the whole film aborted), but I think that would leave a track.

Rating: 59 (down from 60)

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