Dial M for Murder (1954)
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned.
Cactus Classic Cinema: “Dial M For Murder” (1954) PG - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
7:20 PM – 9:05 PM
1812 Buddy Holly Ave, Lubbock, TX 79401, USA
About This Show
Cactus Classic Cinema: “Dial M For Murder” (1954) PG - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm • Showtime: 7:20 pm
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams. Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London’s West End in June, and then New York City’s Broadway in October.
Originally intended to be shown in dual-strip polarized three dimensions (3-D), the film played in most cinemas in ordinary two dimensions (2-D) owing to the loss of interest in the 3-D process (the projection of which was difficult and error-prone) by the time of its release. The film earned an estimated $2.7 million in North American box-office sales in 1954.
Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes
General Admission….$7; all seats on floor level.
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