The non-winning nominations were for Best Actor (Clint Eastwood lost to Al Pacino inScent of a Woman), Best Original Screenplay (David Webb Peoples lost toThe Crying Game), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (lost toHowards End), Best Cinematography (lost toA River Runs Through It), and Best Sound (lost toThe Last of the Mohicans).Therefore, you will find our play turning from one of the four stories to another, as the common theme unfolds in each."In other developments, Marty""s father, a local author, was murdered in 1973 by Biff, and "Doc" had been committed ("Crackpot Inventor Declared Legally Insane").[Note: There were four TV movies: (1) Hallmark Hall of Fame""sDial M For Murder (1958)starring Maurice Evans, Anthony Dawson, John Williams and Rosemary Harris, (2) BBC-TV""s remakeDial M For Murder (1962, UK), (3) ABC-TV""sDial M for Murder (1967)starring Laurence Harvey, Diane Cilento, and Hugh O""Brian, and (4)Dial ""M"" For Murder (1981)starring Angie Dickinson, Christopher Plummer and Michael Parks.]The poignant, moving film realistically transports its present-day audiences back to the setting of the late 1940s, where the film""s three typical protagonists return from their honored wartime roles to their past, altered middle-American lives and are immediately thrust into domestic tragedies, uncertainties, conflicts and awkward situations - handicapped (both physically and emotionally) by their new civilian roles.