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Dial M For Murder (1952)
''Dial M for Murder'' was a British TV crime drama, episode 12 of the third season of the series ''Sunday Night Theatre''. It was aired on 23 March 1952. The script was based on the eponymous play by Frederick Knott, which later was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Cast *Elizabeth Sellars as Sheila Wendice *Basil Appleby as Max Halliday *Emrys Jones (actor), Emrys Jones as Tony Wendice *Olaf Pooley as Captain Lesgate *Douglas Stewart (actor), Douglas Stewart as Lionel *Raymond Huntley as Inspector Hubbard *Robert Cawdron as Police Sergeant *Fletcher Lightfoot *Lane Meddick *Graham Stuart (actor), Graham Stuart *Adrian Wallet External links * 1952 British television episodes {{BBC-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
