X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Dial M for Murder


Do You Like Hitchcock?

The Hitchcock videos rented or taken from the video store include Strangers on a Train and Dial M for Murder while the posters include Vertigo and images of Alfred Hitchcock himself.

Keys are switched between characters during the film leading to the capture of the killer as in Dial M for Murder.

Edward Carrere

Throughout the late 40s and the 50s he worked on such films as "White Heat" (1949), "The Flame and the Arrow" (1950), "Dial M for Murder" (1954), "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957), "Separate Tables" (1958) and "Elmer Gantry" (1960).

Perfect crime

They include Rope, Double Indemnity, Strangers on a Train, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Witness for the Prosecution, and Dial M for Murder.

Shadow of a Doubt

The film was scored by Dimitri Tiomkin, his first collaboration with Hitchcock (the others being Strangers on a Train, I Confess and Dial M for Murder).



see also

Perfect murder

A Perfect Murder, 1998 remake of the 1954 film Dial M for Murder