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ダイヤルMを廻せ! 特別版 [ レイ・ミランド ] 価格:1,100円 (2020/5/13 10:44時点) 感想(0件)

Tony Wendice (played by Ray Milland), an English professional tennis player, is married to wealthy socialite Margot Mary Wendice (played by Grace Kelly), who had an affair with American crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday (played by Robert Cummings). When Tony retires from tennis, he secretly discovers the affair between them and decides to murder his unfaithful wife, both for revenge and to ensure that her money will continue to feed his already-comfortable life.

Tony invites an old acquaintance from the University of Cambridge, Charles Alexander Swann (played by Anthony Dawson), to his London flat. Tony is aware, (unbeknownst to Swann), that Swann has become an aliased small-time criminal (a.k.a. Captain Lesgate), and has been secretly following Swann so he can blackmail him into murdering his wife. Tony tells Swann about Margot's affair. Six months ago, Tony had stolen her handbag, which contained a love letter from Mark, and anonymously blackmailed her. After tricking Swann into leaving his fingerprints on the letter (by tricking him into touching it), Tony offers to pay him £1,000 to kill Margot; if Swann refuses, Tony will turn him in to the police as Margot's blackmailer. Swann's credibility, in denying Tony's accusation, would be hurt by his criminal records.
After Swann agrees, Tony explains his plan: the following evening he will go with Mark to a party, leaving Margot at home while hiding her latchkey outside the carpet of the staircase facing the front door of their flat. Swann is to sneak in when Margot is fast asleep and hide behind the curtains in front of the French doors to the garden. At eleven o'clock, Tony would telephone the flat from the party. Swann must strangle Margot when she answers the phone, open the French doors, leave signs that would trick the police into believing that a burglary had gone wrong and then exit through the front door before hiding the key again.
The following night, Swann enters the flat while Margot is in bed, and waits. At the party, Tony discovered that his watch has stopped, so he phoned the flat at 11.03 pm - three minutes later than intended. When Margot comes to the phone, Swann tries to strangle her with his scarf, but she manages to grab a pair of scissors and stab him in the back. The situation wasn’t helped by the fact that Swann fell on his back. She picks up the telephone receiver and pleads for help. Tony tells her not to touch anything until he arrives home. When he returns to the flat, he calls the police and sends Margot to bed. Before the police arrive, Tony moves what he thinks is Margot's latchkey from Swann's pocket into her handbag, plants Mark's letter on Swann, and destroys Swann's scarf, replacing it with Margot's own stocking in an attempt to incriminate her.
The following day, Tony persuades Margot to hide the fact that he told her not to call the police immediately. Chief Inspector Hubbard (played by John Williams) arrives and questions the Wendices, and Margot makes several conflicting statements. When Hubbard says Swann must have entered through the front door, Tony falsely claims to have seen Swann at the time Margot's handbag was stolen, and suggests that Swann made a copy of her key. Hubbard did not believe this because no key was found on Swann's body upon inspection. Hubbard arrested Margot after concluding that she killed Swann for blackmailing her. Margot is found guilty and sentenced to death.

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Ray Milland as Tony Wendice　レイ・ミランド
Grace Kelly as Margot Mary Wendice　グレース・ケリー
Robert Cummings as Mark Halliday　ロバート・カミングス
John Williams as Chief Inspector Hubbard　ジョン・ウィリアムズ
Anthony Dawson as Charles Alexander Swann/Captain Lesgate　アンソニー・ドーソン

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1954年のアルフレッド・ヒッチコック監督作品「ダイヤルMを廻せ！」です。
レイ・ミランド、グレース・ケリー主演。
あまりヒッチコック作品には馴染みのない2人かな。

本作はヒッチコックお得意のサスペンススリラー。
この映画は最初に犯人が観客に示されており、刑事が犯人を追い詰める形。
元々は戯曲だったということもあり、セリフは多め(まあ、戯曲を書いたFrederick Knottがそのまま本作の脚本を担当したからでしょう)で、舞台もアパートが中心。登場人物も5人が中心で、他は端役。


この映画の鍵はそれこそ鍵。
この映画に出てくる鍵はラッチ式の鍵。
オートロックみたいなもんで、出るときには鍵はいらないが、入るときには必要というもの。

レイ・ミランドは平気で殺人依頼する悪い奴なんですが
それでもちょっと同情しちゃかも。
妻の不倫がなければ、殺害しようだなんて思わなかっただろうし。
最後もTonyが捕まって、MargotはMarkと一緒になるのかなと思うと、なんかすっきりしないね。
本作では不倫は別にお咎めなしか。


本作のヒッチコックカメオ出演は↓です。必ずしも直接出演しているとは限りません。写真など間接的にカメオしている場合もあります。