Truffaut:
"...this is one of the pictures I see over and over again...Basically it's a dialogue picture, but the cutting, the rhythm, and the direction of the players are so polished that one listens to each sentence religiously. It isn't all that easy to command the audience's undivided attention for a continuous dialogue. I suspect that here again the real achievement is that something very difficult has been carried out in a way that makes it seem very easy." (Truffaut: Hitchcock, 1968)
Scorsese:
"I like watching Dial M For Murder. It's wonderful to watch because it's a lesson in cutting... Watch how Hitchcock changes the camera angles; watch how the size of the frame changes, on what line of dialogue. It's not just that they change; it's when Hitchcock chooses to do a different set-up. And how different that set-up is. It's very subtle...It's like listening to a fugue by Bach, trying to figure out where the next phrase is beginning and where it ends." (Projections 7, 1997.)
Art:
No idea.
Artist:
The film is worth seeing for John Williams' performance alone. Anthony Dawson is another cast member who was carried over from Frederick Knott's play.
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