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The Crime Was Almost Perfect
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Description of this Alfred Hitchcock Film Poster
The Crime Was Almost Perfect is a 1954 American crime film directed by Alfred Hitchcock,[4] starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson and John Williams. The screenplay and the successful play it was based on were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. The play premiered in 1952 on the BBC television channel[5], before being performed on stage the same year in London's West End in June, then on Broadway in New York in October.
Originally intended to be shown in dual-band polarized 3-D, the film was shown in most theaters in regular 2-D due to the loss of interest in the 3-D process (including projection was difficult and error-prone) at the time of its release.[6] The film is estimated to have grossed $2.7 million at the North American box office in 1954.
Tony Wendice, a retired English tennis player, is married to wealthy socialite Margot, who is having an affair with American crime writer Mark Halliday. Unbeknownst to them, Tony has discovered their affair and plans to have Margot killed so he can inherit her fortune.
Tony knows that Charles Swann, an old acquaintance from Cambridge University, has become a small-time crook with a criminal record. Under some pretext, Tony invites Swann to his apartment in Maida Vale and tells him about Margot's affair. Tony also confides to him that six months previously, he stole Margot's purse, which contained a love letter from Mark, and blackmailed her anonymously. After tricking Swann into leaving his fingerprints on the letter, Tony traps him, threatening to expose him as Margot's blackmailer unless he kills Margot. With the added incentive of £1,000 in cash, Swann agrees to the murder and Tony explains his plan to him. Tony and Mark will go to a party while Margot stays home alone. At a specific time when Margot will certainly be in bed, Swann will enter the apartment using Margot's key, which Tony will hide under the fireplace rug, and hide. A few minutes later, Tony will call the apartment from the party and Swann will kill Margot when she answers the call. Swann then whistles the phone to signal that the job is complete, leaves traces of a burglary gone wrong, and places the key under the entryway rug as he leaves.
The next night, Swann enters the apartment and Tony calls as planned. When Margot comes to the phone, Swann tries to strangle her with her scarf, but she fatally stabs him with scissors. Hearing Margot call for help instead of Swann's whistle, Tony advises her not to talk to anyone. He returns home, calls the police, sends Margot to bed, and transfers what he thinks is Margot's key from Swann's pocket into her purse. He also attempts to frame Margot by planting Mark's letter on Swann and destroying Swann's scarf.
The next day, Tony persuades Margot to hide the fact that he told her not to call the police. Chief Inspector Hubbard arrives and questions the Wendices. Margot makes several contradictory statements. When Hubbard says that the evidence indicates that Swann came in through the front door, Tony claims that Swann must be responsible for stealing Margot's purse, and made a copy of her key. As Tony wants, Hubbard does not believe this story and arrests Margot after concluding that she killed Swann for blackmailing him. Margot is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
Months later, the day before Margot's scheduled execution, Mark visits Tony, telling him that he has imagined a story that he must tell to the police to save Margot. Mark's "story" is very close to what really happened: Tony paid Swann to kill Margot. Hubbard arrives unexpectedly, and Mark hides in the bedroom. Hubbard questions Tony about the large sums of money he has spent in town, pressures him to reveal that his key ring is in his raincoat, and inquires about Tony's briefcase. Tony claims to have misplaced it, but Mark, who overheard the conversation, finds it on the bed, filled with bank notes. Deducing that the money was Tony's intended payment to Swann, Mark confronts Tony and explains his theory to Hubbard. Tony "confesses" that the money was payment for Margot's blackmail of Swann, which he had hidden to protect her. Hubbard appears to accept Tony's explanation, and Mark leaves in anger. Hubbard discreetly exchanges his own raincoat with Tony's. As soon as Tony leaves, Hubbard uses Tony's key to get back into the apartment, followed by Mark. Hubbard had already discovered that the key in Margot's purse was the key to Swann's latch and deduced that the latter had returned the Wendice key to its hiding place after unlocking the door. Now, rightly suspecting Tony of conspiring with Swann, Hubbard had devised an elaborate ruse to trap him.
Plainclothes police officers bring Margot from the prison to the apartment. She tries in vain to unlock the door with the key in her purse, then enters through the garden, thus proving to Hubbard that she does not know the key is hidden and is therefore innocent. Hubbard has Margot's purse taken back to the police station, where Tony retrieves it after discovering that it has no key. The key to Margot's bag does not work, so he uses the hidden key to open the door, thus demonstrating his guilt and exonerating Margot. As Hubbard and another police officer block his way, Tony calmly makes himself a drink and congratulates Hubbard.
