
Dial M for Murder(1954)
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.


“Love held its breath as sudden terror held the stage!”
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Jane Wyman
Eve Gill

Marlene Dietrich
Charlotte Inwood

Michael Wilding
Det. Insp. Wilfried 'Ordinary' Smith

Richard Todd
Jonathan Cooper

Alastair Sim
Commodore Gill

Sybil Thorndike
Mrs. Gill

Kay Walsh
Nellie Goode

Miles Malleson
Mr. Fortesque
Hector MacGregor
Freddie Williams

Joyce Grenfell
'Lovely Ducks'
Stage Fright is a thriller film released in 1950 exploring themes of london, england, based on novel or book, lover, black and white, maid, doll. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it stars Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding. A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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