4. Margot Almost Gets Murdered Scene In Dial M For Murder
In 1954, Hitchcock directed the 3D film, Dial M For Murder, which, similar to Strangers On A Train, follows the story of someone setting someone else up to kill someone for them. Starring Grace Kelly as Margot and Ray Milland as Tony Wendice, the overall story follows Tony paying an old friend to kill his wife Margot who he discovered was having an affair. The scary scene in which the hired killer arrives to kill Margot in unbearably tense. Tony calls the apartment from a party - Margot gets up to answer the phone, which is the killer's cue to strangle her. Margot picks up the phone and says hello into the receiver - about ten times. Not like now, when you'd just hang up thinking it was a prank caller. So the scene goes a little something like this: Margot is standing in the dark room saying "hello? hello? hello?" and it's getting more and more tense, and suddenly BOO, the killer is behind her with a scarf to strangle her with, and he goes in for the kill - but she fends him off! And ultimately kills him with a pair of scissors. It's a very jumpy scene, based mainly on the built up tension and quick appearance of the killer standing behind poor innocent Margot.
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