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...much to the good. To the bad are the occasional studied lapses of taste and, more important, the eerie sense a Hitchcock audience has of reacting in a manner so carefully foreseen as to seem practically foreordained. "It makes you want to fool him by reacting some other way," said another moviemaker, "but you can't. You're condemned to enjoyment...
...this time the moviegoer is about to drop his eyeballs out the window, and Hitchcock starts to tease. The photographer's girl friend (Grace Kelly), a high-fashion publicist, runs a pretty French seam of kisses down the Stewart profile; the ballerina in the lower-left corner of the camera's eye further cuts the sleuthing down to thighs; and the newlyweds in the third floor across the way keep threatening to dramatize every old joke about newlyweds. The beauty of it is that all Hitchcock's pandering is done with such wit and grace that...
There is, of course, a gory good finish, with Stewart standing off the murderer (Raymond Burr) with a barrage of popping flashbulbs, and somebody remarking that an important piece of evidence can be found in a hatbox. But the best of it is the moment in which Hitchcock dares to break his climax wide open to get a laugh -and gets away with it. When the New York cops run to the rescue, the film, just for an instant, runs in fast motion, producing a constabular celerity that has not been observed since the days of the Keystone Kops...
Junior-Executive Swagger. There is never an instant, in fact, when Director Hitchcock is not in minute and masterly control of his material: script, camera, cutting, props, the handsome set constructed from his ideas, the stars he has Hitched to his vehicle. Actor Stewart happily downplays his boyish charm, comes through strongly as Hitchcock's principal agent in creating suspense out of casual incident. Actress Kelly, a Hitchcock worker in Dial M for Murder and now working in his next picture, plays the career girl with a subtle junior-executive swagger, a good deal of wit, and a sort...
Dial M for Murder. Ray Milland tries to murder Grace Kelly, but Director Alfred Hitchcock sees to it that he gets his comeuppance (TIME...