It was a triple win for Wilder as Director (Wilder""s second directing Oscar), Producer, and Screenplay author."Carriages draw up with guests in front of the pillared, Twelve Oaks plantation for the lavish Wilkes barbecue - a beautifully photographed scene.In fact, most theatre viewers saw the film in 2D (flat).Dial M for Murderstarted as a BBC television production (with a script by Frederick Knott) that aired in March of 1952, and then in he same year became a successful stage play that premiered in London (and had 425 performances), followed soon after by a successful Broadway run of 552 performances." She accepted his offer of £8 pounds to purchase a huge, vintage wooden airplane propeller for decorative purposes, even hough it was an entirely useless and bizarre artifact (as an inert, stalled and inactive relic from the past).