Dial M For Murder & Family Plot

Alfred Hitchcock’s DIAL M FOR MURDER
(1954, 105 min)

Alfred Hitchcock’s screen version of the stage hit is a tasty blend of elegance and suspense, casting Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings as the points of a romantic triangle. When Milland discovers that his wife is in love with another man, he plots her murder. But when he dials a Mayfair exchange to set the plot in motion, his right number gets the wrong answer—and gleaming scissors become a deadly weapon.

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Alfred Hitchcock’s FAMILY PLOT
(1976, PG, 121 min)

Hitchcock’s final film centers on the kidnapping of an heir and a diamond theft by a pair of bad guys led by Karen Black and William Devane. The cops seem befuddled, but that doesn’t stop a questionable psychic and her not overly bright boyfriend from picking up the trail and solving the crime.