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1. Ray Milland (Tony Wendice) plays the husband of Grace Kelly (Margot Wendice). What sport did he play when he married her?

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Answer: Tennis

Tony was a tennis professional when he married Margot but quit after she complained he was away too much and had started an affair with American Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings); something she didn't realize he had discovered!

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Answer: he is a television writer

He says he writes for "television, for my sins."

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Answer: He wanted to inherit her money.

Tony wants to have Margot murdered because he wants to inherit her wealth. He has very little means himself since retiring from tennis. Margot is independently wealthy and he has found out she had an affair.

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Answer: London, England

Tony and Margot live at 61A Charrington Gardens, London, England. Fans of the movie have tried to pin point the actual street where the movie was filmed but have not been able to find it. One researcher claims it is either near the Warwick Avenue Station or Maida Vale Station based on the directions Tony gives Swann over the phone.

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Answer: 2 minutes

Charrington Gardens seems to be a in a very central location. It's two minutes from the police station as well.

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Answer: writer

Mark Halliday is an American fiction crime writer. Tony asks Mark if he believes in the "perfect murder" and Mark answers that he thinks he could plan one better than most but also thinks he would likely make a stupid mistake and be found out.

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Answer: a photograph of a reunion

He sits at the same table as Swann, in the bottom right hand corner.

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Answer: an old college classmate

Tony blackmails his old college classmate, Charles Swann into murdering his wife by using his criminal past to blackmail him.

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Answer: 4

First, we see Tony's when he takes it out of his glove. Then we see Margot's when Tony takes it out of her bag. Then Swann's is shown as Tony removes it from the body (thought at the time it is thought to be Margot's), and finally, Hubbard intentionally drops his on the floor to test Tony.

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Answer: a pair of scissors

Margot grabbed a pair of scissors from the desk and used them to stab Swann in the back. Tony had given Swann a key to get into the apartment. The arrangement was for him to hide behind the curtains by the desk in the living room and Tony was to call home in an effort to make Margo answer the phone, thereby placing her conveniently by the curtains. Swann was to step out and strangle her but Margot was stronger and more determined than he thought. She was able to grab the scissors which had been sitting on the desk and use them to stab Swann.

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Answer: Williams

Hubbard tells Williams to stand at the top of the stairs and warn them if Tony comes.

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Answer: Tony called home and spoke to Margot.

Tony called home which was supposed to force Margo from bed to answer the phone at which point Swann was supposed to step out from behind the curtains and kill her. Tony was late calling because his watch had stopped, and Margot told him that she had killed an intruder.

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Answer: The inspector in charge of the case

Mark believes Margot is innocent and asks Tony to tell the police that he killed Swann in order to stop her execution. Of course, Tony refuses but when Inspector Hubbard makes a surprise visit and Mark hides in the bedroom he finds a brief case that is full of money. At the same time the inspector is asking Tony about the brief case and Tony tries to tell him he has lost it. Mark comes out of the bedroom and shows the inspector the brief case and the money inside it.

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Answer: Chief Inspector Hubbard

Chief Inspector Hubbard asks one of his officers to take Margot's purse back to her at the station and when he hooks it over his arm, Hubbard makes the above remark.

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Answer: 10 Bob

He says she owes it to him for the package she sent to Peggy. He really just needed an excuse to get in her purse so he could get her latchkey.

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Answer: at a bachelor party for one of Tony's friends

Tony and Mark were at a bachelor party for a friend of Tony's at his club. Tony asked Mark to attend the party with him so that he could provide an alibi for him at the time when Margot was supposed to have been killed.

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Answer: A Perfect Murder

The remake starred Michael Douglas as Tony, except the character's name was Steven Taylor. The movie also starred Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot, a.k.a. Emily Bradford Taylor, and Viggo Mortenson as the Mark character, David Shaw. David Suchet of "Poirot" fame played, big surprise, Inspector Mohamed Karaman, equivalent of Inspector Hubbard.

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Answer: Grace Kelly

Kim Novak was in "Vertigo" and appeared on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". Tippi Hedren played in "The Birds" and "Marnie". Ingrid Bergman wasn't really a Hitchcock regular.

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Answer: Queen Mary

The King Alfred choice was meant to throw you off. I don't know how many of you out there were thrown off by my clever scheming.

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Answer: the 5th

When Mark reconstructs the attempted murder he says that Tony probably hid the key on top of the door.

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Answer: he wears it on his pinky

I thought this was very strange. It's easy to see in the scene where he has Margot's key behind his back.

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