Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, and John Williams.
Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott.
The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York's Broadway in October.
Originally intended to be shown in dual- strip polarized 3- D, the film played in most theatres in ordinary 2- D due to the loss of interest in the 3- D process( the projection of which was difficult and error- prone) by the time of its release.
The film earned an estimated$ 2.7 million in North American box office rentals in 1954.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Ben Cura
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Alan Zweig
Alan Zweig is a Toronto documentary filmmaker known for often using film to explore his own life.
In his 2000 film" Vinyl", Zweig explores what drives people to become record collectors.
Zweig spends a large portion of the film exploring his own life in regard to record collecting, feeling it has prevented him from fulfilling his dreams of a family.
" I, Curmudgeon" is a 2004 film about self- declared curmudgeons, himself included, which received a Silver Hugo at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival.
The film was shot on a camcorder, with Zweig using a mirror to record his own experiences.
" Lovable" is a 2007 film about our preoccupation with finding romantic perfection.
In 2009, Zweig moved from autobiographical subject matter to explore the struggle of ex-convicts to lead normal lives in" A Hard Name", which received the Genie Award for best documentary.
His 2013 film" When Jews Were Funny", an exploration of the role of Jewish comedians in North American comedy and humour, won the prize for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Again, he uses most of the movie exploring his own position as a Jew married to a non-Jewish woman and a new father.
" Hurt", his documentary film about Steve Fonyo, was released in 2015.
It won the Platform Prize at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
His film" There Is a House Here", premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and" Coppers" premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
Jason Moore (director)
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Hanro Smitsman
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph- cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film" The Pleasure Garden"( 1925).
His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British.
Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946).
" Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for" Lifeboat"( 1944) and" Spellbound"( 1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The" Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Vinyl (2000 film)
Vinyl is a 2000 documentary film by Toronto filmmaker/ record collector Alan Zweig.
In the film, Zweig seeks not to talk to people who collect vinyl records to discuss music, but rather to discuss what drives someone to collect records in the first place.
Zweig spends a large portion of the film in stylized self- filmed" confessions", where he expounds on his life in regard to record collecting, feeling it has prevented him from fulfilling his dreams of a family.
In addition to celebrities like Canadian director/ actor Don McKellar and" American Splendor" creator Harvey Pekar, Zweig speaks to a variety of record collectors.
Collectors include a car wash employee who claims to own over one million records and claims to have memorized the track listing of every K- Tel collection he owns, a government employee who refuses to organize his collection because he does n't want people to come over and a man who threw out his large record collection rather than sell or give it away because he did n't want anyone else to own it.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Are both director of film Dial M For Murder and director of film Vinyl (2000 Film) from the same country?
Answer: no