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Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder

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Hitchcock was a great screenwriter although he took a writer’s credit only once after 1932 for the film Dial M for Murder. His guiding intelligence was behind all his scripts. He also contributed dialogues and his narrative abilities, sense of plot, pacing remain unparalleled. Hitchcock also had a genius for colloquialism. Hitchcock claim not to care about his deft scripts and cautious working habits belie this pretense of indifference. Hitchcock approached his writers not as taskmaster but as a scrupulous collaborator able to draw the best from Charles Bennett, Earnest Lehman, Thornton Wilder, Evan Hunter, John Micael Hayes and others including his wife Alma Reville who was with him from 1922 till his last (Miller

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