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3 stars

Dial M for Murder

(1954; screens Wednesday at 10 p.m.)

Alfred Hitchcock's foray into the short-lived 3-D fad of the '50s is a solid but not extraordinary effort by the master. Grace Kelly plays a two-timing wife (she has the hots for Robert Cummings, of all people) whose nefarious husband, Ray Milland, sets up her murder. Through some typically perverse Hitchcockian twists, she's the one who ends up on trial. Kelly is cool in a slip, Cummings is callow, and Milland is delightfully despicable.
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