BACK in the 1950’s
if you were going to
Dial M for Murder,
you had better be ready
to dial
some other letters, too,
if you wanted to
complete the call.
BACK in the 1950’s
if you were going to
Dial M for Murder,
you had better be ready
to dial
some other letters, too,
if you wanted to
complete the call.
t r e f o l o g y 
“Aren’t you glad you dialed M? Don’t you wish everybody did?” (Charles Washburn, the clean-cut serial killer)
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I really don’t know why they don’t let more hired killers do commercials for the phone company. Thanks, D-money
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Hahaha, right you are!
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To kill call:
Same hole as the M
Dial NO ;)
I totally enjoyed your Hitchcock rewind, Geo. Thx.
Brought back my family’s first phone. Not only was
it noir, and have a dial with holes, it was wired into
a “party line”: when you lifted the receiver to your ear,
you were as likely to hear a party planning a party,
as a dial tone.
One time, I heard a party say, “dial M for Murdock.”
So as gently as I had lifted the receiver, I returned
it to the cradle. And there it remained, until I read
“Good spelling is essential.” At last, I can stop
worrying.
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M -NO. That is hilarious, CES. What a great take. Had I taken a moment to look at an actual dial I might have seen it, too.
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Now there’s an app for that! :)
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Who has time to dial these days, right? Thanks, MM
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And somehow the operator at the PBX always connected me to the police station.
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Now that sounds like a twist right out of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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That is quite true.
Also, that was a good movie.
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At about ten or eleven, I went thru a serious 3D obsession, even bought a camera, and projector, but it would be a few years before I finally had a chance to see Hitchcock’s dip into the three-dimensions with M. The film had some beautiful moments, but that was the last time I saw it.
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That movie was supposed to be 3D? I had no idea!
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The film title should have been a clue that the bad guy was (Ray) Milland. Of course, the M could also stand for Mistermuse, but Hitchcock thought I was too young for the part (or was it too old — in any case, I felt like an out-cast).
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Dial M for Mistermuse sounds like a fine title, nevertheless.
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And I’m a dinosaur because I still have a landline
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There is something very noble about that. Carrying on a long history of getting up to answer the phone.
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[…] Good spelling is essential — t r e f o l o g y […]
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Thank you, DBB! I hope this finds you well!
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We were talking about rotary phones the other day, and how frustrating it was to call someone with a lot of 9s and/or 0s in their phone number.
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It never bothered me I guess because it produced such a pleasant sound.
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OK, I’m missing something. 6-8-7-3-3-7?
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That’s the phone number of murder, all right, though not as dramatic as the letters. Hitchcock was right not to go with Dial 6 for Murder.
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I feel I’m still missing something. What was the point of your post?
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It needs a point?
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This Monday has been officially made! You got me here, my friend xxxxx
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Happy Monday, then, Jean and thanks.
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*Giggles*
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Thanks, Jan
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Given that phone numbers need 7 digits, would you not need to dial ‘M’ for ‘MURDERS?’
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Valid point, C
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Yeah, remember the days of getting up to answer the phone. Getting up to change the channel on the TV. Getting up? lol
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I do miss the inconvenience of it all.
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Yessy. And I’m a bad speller at times.
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If you accidentally dial “moider” you’ll still get a hitman, though, probably one in the New York area.
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Yeah, that’s awful consequence for a little miss spelling. Let’s hope we stay safe. Amen.
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I guess I have to watch Ray come unglued again.
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I stopped trusting Ray ever since he went after those kids from Witch Mountain.
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He got his in ‘Frogs’.
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Ray wasn’t alone, we all ‘got’ it in “Frogs”, just in different ways.
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Yes we did.
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