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Aug 12, 2015Derringer rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Well, "The Master of Suspense" (yes, that's director, Alfred Hitchcock, everyone) has done it again. "Dial M For Murder" is yet another one of "The Master's" misfired, mediocre tales of "murder-most-foul" that honestly doesn't even come close to living up to all of its hype. Over the past few months I have watched a number of Hitchcock's most-applauded films of the 1950s (such as Vertigo and Spellbound) - And, yes, even when I take into account that they are now all 60+ years old, I still find that these films are really being grossly over-rated by (what appears to be) oddly sentimental reviewers who seem to be viewing Hitchcock's films through the hazy gauze of rose-colored glasses. And, "Dial M for Murder" was a perfect example of what I'm talking about here. This very stagy, Technicolor production took the whole idea of a meticulously thought-out murder plot to preposterously implausible extremes. And this, in turn, left this viewer rolling his eyes to the ceiling (in pure exasperation) more than you can ever imagine.