This is as classic as Thrillers come! It's a sort of inside out mystery. Of course this had been done before, such as in Gaslight, but not with so much seeming banality. In Gaslight, there is no question that Charles Boyer's character Gregory Anton is a personification of evil, in Dial Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) is no such thing. He's milquetoast ex tennis pro who plays it straight, that is until we find out that he wants his cheating wife dead. This film marked Grace Kelly's entrance onto the Hitchcock stage and saw the return of Robert Cummings. Adapted from a famous play (which is still widely performed to this day), it was famously remade in 1998 as A Perfect Murder starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow with mixed results. Kelly would go on to star in two more Hitchcock thrillers before famously becoming Princess Grace of Monaco.
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