Dial M for Murder — IQ Score 153/200
Dial M for Murder has an IQ Score of 153/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Hitchcock's 1954 Frederick Knott stage adaptation, originally released in 3-D. Ray Milland's Tony Wendice planning his wife's murder is the kind of single-location chamber-piece structure Hitchcock excelled at; Grace Kelly's Margot does the harder work as the wife who has to render terror at register the genre rarely affords its female leads.
The scissors sequence is a master-class in editing-as-tension-engine.
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