Jump to content

Talk:Dial M for Murder

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 173.72.63.96 (talk) at 22:22, 4 January 2017 (→Howcatchem?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

WikiProject iconFilm: British / American Start‑class
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Film. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines.FilmWikipedia:WikiProject FilmTemplate:WikiProject Filmfilm
StartThis article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by the British cinema task force.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by the American cinema task force.
WikiProject iconTheatre Start‑class Mid‑importance
WikiProject iconThis article is part of WikiProject Theatre, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of theatre on Wikipedia.
To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.TheatreWikipedia:WikiProject TheatreTemplate:WikiProject TheatreTheatre
StartThis article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
MidThis article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Fact Checking

This entry needs some fact-checking. There is more than one setting for the film; I can remember at least two (the husband at a meeting in a restaurant, getting conflicting reports on what time it is), as well as a shot of an exterior. Also, must no plot go above the spoiler warning? Isn't plot more central to what the film is than who's acted in it and the ISBN of the screenplay? Also, why is the still in black and white when the film is in color (filmed, incidentally, in 3D)? Koyaanis Qatsi, who's not seen the film recently enough to feel confident editing the article much.

Shouldn't this be listed as a play that's been made into a film, rather than as a film from a stage play. The play is still popular. I saw it last year. Mintguy 10:35 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)

Good point. And maybe the author meant that the play has only one setting; that may well be. Did it? Koyaanis Qatsi
Yes. Mintguy Please fact-check to HELP me to Portugal to stop them installment murdering tenacious me for years with what some claied is a top poison in small amounts and getting someone from beyond Europe to beam industrially destroying my genitalia and buttocks and if that upsets the reader I have pleaded for this for years begging on my blog Facebook and they want me to go to police who do not police Assacaias because Assacaias is not for police it is the GNR

BBC TV series

I just found out there was a 1974 BBC series of Dial M for Murder but is not mentioned here. Anyone else know about this?--Rachel Mules 23:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps this article should probably be moved to Dial M for Murder (film), with the present title serving as a disambiguation page, pointing to all known versions. I think we should have an article about the play. TheMadBaron 10:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Gracedial.jpg

Image:Gracedial.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 15:54, 4 June 2007 (UTC) THE TIME IN PRISON-from the movie we know hiow long grace kelly set in prison.here it is not come to light. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.196.166.161 (talk) 16:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Howcatchem?

Does anyone know what this term means? Does anyone know what an "inverted detective story," which this term links to, is? I propose it be included much further down, if at all. A Google search for this term reveals fewer than 3500 results. As such, I am removing it as it appears to elevate an obscure, pet term in the first sentence of an otherwise important article. 173.21.106.137 (talk) 05:39, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A "howcatchem"/inverted detective story is a crime story in which the audience is shown from the beginning who committed the crime and how, and the plot of the story involves how the detective finds out what the audience already knows. The archetypal example of this is the old Columbo tv series, where the beginning of each episode showed the commission of the murder. Colombo is so archetypal for this term, in fact, that I've almost never heard it used to refer to anything but Columbo, so it seems out of place in relation to a Hitchcock film, and your change was probably a good idea. keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 13:42, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
According to the Dr. Thorndyke wiki article, R. Austin Freeman invented the inverted detective story.173.72.63.96 (talk) 22:22, 4 January 2017 (UTC)Deshawn Bullock[reply]

Plot summary

I shortened the plot summary and changed the description of Swann from "petty criminal" to "criminal". If you listen carefully to the dialogue between Swann and Tony you will see that Swann actually already murdered someone; he killed one of his wealthy "lady friends" by poisoning her with increasingly large doses of a prescription medicine she had been taking. Invertzoo (talk) 23:47, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tony says the newspapers have reported that a middle-aged woman (Miss Wallace) was "found dead of an overdose of something. Apparently she'd been taking the stuff for some time, and nobody knows where she got it from." If it were a prescription medicine then it wouldn't be a mystery where she got it from. In fact the text of the play specifies that Miss Wallace OD'd on cocaine - perhaps the movie omitted this word for censorship reasons. But even in the context of the film Tony doesn't accuse Swann of deliberately murdering Miss Wallace, he (Tony) just implies Swann was pushing an illegal drug. Muzilon (talk) 18:14, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on Dial M for Murder. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers. —cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 01:22, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Dial_M_for_Murder&oldid=758350012"