SILVER

Jealous husband Ray Milland plots to do away with his rich wife Grace Kelly, for her past infidelity with mystery writer Robert Cummings, fearing that she will ultimately leave him and take her money with her. Having devised the perfect murder scheme, invented an ironclad alibi and blackmailed shady schoolmate Anthony Dawson into doing the deed for him, a shocked Milland has to scramble to cover his tracks after the crafty Kelly makes an amazing escape. Hitchcock's 3-D adaptation of Frederick Knott's hit play eschews the typical "opening up" of movie adaptations, instead keeping the action confined to the couple’s London flat, to clever, claustrophobic effect. DIR/PROD Alfred Hitchcock; SCR Frederick Knott, from his play. US, 1954, color, 105 min. RATED PG

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