..Broken bits of his life in his new home.His life has unraveled in an opium den of the Anglo-Saxon West, where he smokes the deadly drug: "Chinese, Malays, Lascars, where the Orient squats at the portals of the West.at 49th St.).Although the film initially failed at the box-office and its plot was considered far-fetched, it anticipated the American obsession with conspiracy theories in the early to mid-60s.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.Don""t you recognize it?Werdegast: I can still sense death in the air.Poelzig: There is still death in the air.It is just as much undermined [with dynamite] today as ever.And this is the old chart room for he long-range guns.The guns are gone, but the charts are still here.There, in the chart room for long-range guns, staged in front of a large illuminated sheet of graph paper, Poelzig flips another light switch.