
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.



Robert Newton
Dr. Clive Riordan

Phil Brown
Bill Kronin

Sally Gray
Storm Riordan

Naunton Wayne
Supt. Finsbury

James Harcourt
Aitkin (butler)

Betty Cooper
Miss Stevens (receptionist)

Allan Jeayes
The Colonel, blustery club member

Ronald Adam
Talkative, balding club member
Roddy Hughes
Bespectacled third club member, from Whitehall

Olga Lindo
Mrs. Humphries
Obsession is a thriller, crime film released in 1949 exploring themes of jealousy, police, perfect crime, scotland yard, film noir, psychological thriller. Directed by Edward Dmytryk, it stars Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Sally Gray. A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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