I saw this last night (first time viewing). Good movie, but a tad predictable. Not hard to figure out who was terrorizing her. Some of it was a surprise, like the man seen peering through her window and all that. Excellent acting all around, but I kinda wish that Ray Milland had been chosen as the leading man.
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I think that anybody who had seen 'Dial M For Murder' before seeing this one, would know which it was going to go. Ray Milland or Rex Harrison? I'm not too sure. Rex Harrison had a very creepy look in this movie. And Anthony Dawson looked even creepier.
shareCome on, Ray Milland would have been much better. He doesn't look ugly, he would have played a well educated husband, just to the contrary of this bore of Rex Harrison. Also, one could have rather believed Doris Day accepting marriage to Ray.
shareDoris Day might not have accepted marriage to Ray, if she saw his IMDb page photo.
shareIt wasn't predictable at all. Early on I thought it might be the husband, but there wasn't any indication prior to his revelation at the end. Actually, he seemed quite sincerely concerned throughout. But my main reason for not suspecting him was that I thought certainly, only a few years after the very similar "Dial M for Murder", they wouldn't make it the husband again. But they did.
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It's the (book SPOILER!) James Patterson ending: The person you least suspect (the guardian, the trusted friend) is the one who did it. Based on that construct, I was expecting Harrison.
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