Dial M for Murder - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Dial M for Murder"
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Timing: 1:45 (105 min)
Dial M for Murder - TMDB rating
8/10
2819
Dial M for Murder - Kinopoisk rating
8.073/10
67968
Dial M for Murder - IMDB rating
8.1/10
204000

Film crew

Director

Producer

Editor

Art Direction

Costume Design

Moss Mabry
Costume Design

Set Decoration

George James Hopkins
Set Decoration

Makeup Artist

Gordon Bau

Gordon Bau
Makeup Artist

Original Music Composer

Photo Dimitri Tiomkin #72837

Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin
Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

Photo Robert Burks #74412

Robert Burks

Robert Burks
Director of Photography

Screenplay

Assistant Director

Mel Dellar
Assistant Director

Conductor

Sound

Oliver S. Garretson
Sound

Theatre Play

What's left behind the scenes

  • Alfred Hitchcock's cameo – a photo from a reunion (one of Hitchcock's most inconspicuous cameos).
  • For close-up shots of the phone, large-scale models of a finger and a phone were built, as the camera could not focus on a regular phone.
  • The film was shot in 36 days.
  • The film was originally shot in 3D.
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) chose an expensive red velvet peignoir for Grace Kelly (1929-1982) in the scene where she is talking on the phone. Kelly protested, stating that no woman in the world would wear such a thing to answer the phone when she was alone and already in bed. According to Kelly, a woman would answer the phone in her nightgown. Hitchcock admitted she was right, he liked the resulting scene, and subsequently allowed her to decide all wardrobe matters for herself in all of his films.
  • The Warner Bros. studio insisted on filming in 3D, even though public enthusiasm for it was waning, and Alfred Hitchcock himself was confident that the film would ultimately be released in a conventional format. He wanted the first shot of the film to show a finger dialing 'M' on a rotary phone, but the 3D camera was unable to properly capture the close-up. The director therefore ordered a giant finger and a corresponding oversized phone dial to be made of wood.
  • Warner Bros. literally forced Alfred Hitchcock to make this film, citing contractual obligations. He was so uninterested in what was happening on set that the director stated he could easily have given instructions by phone, and the film would not have suffered for it.
  • During the filming of the murder scene, Alfred Hitchcock even lost weight due to worry. He ran rehearsal after rehearsal, and then shot numerous takes to capture the entry of the scissors into the body exactly as he envisioned it.
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