and Gun Crazy Alfred Hitchcock cast Dall in Rope (1948) as one of two killers (the other played by Farley Granger) who match wits with James Stewart. The film was not a big hit on release but its reputation has since grown. After Rope it was reported he would make Shadow of Fear for Michael Curtiz but this did not materialize. Dall did "The Wind and the Rain" for Theatre Guild on the Air then returned to Broadway to appear in Daniel Taradash's adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Red Gloves with Charles Boyer, directed by Jed Harris. It was a minor hit. Brooks Atkinson said Boyer and Dall's acting were the best thing about the production. Dall made his TV debut in "Miracle in the Rain" for The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre in 1949. He appeared as one of the leads in Gun Crazy (1950) opposite Irish actress Peggy Cummins. Dall had a supporting role in The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950). He was in the short-run revival of The Heiress (1950) on Broadway with Basil Rathbone. Television In October 1950 Dall said that TV acting was better done by movie actors, who understood technique, than stage actors, who needed audience response. In late 1950, he appeared in The Man by Mel Dinelli on stage in Los Angeles with Gladys George. The Los Angeles Times said he played his role with "tremendous assurance". In stock he appeared in The Hasty Heart (1952), Gramercy Ghost (1952), The Moon is Blue (1953), The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Born Yesterday (1953). Dall did much work in television, appearing in guest roles on such shows as Lights Out ("Pit of the Dead"), The Clock ("A Right Smart Trick"), Studio One in Hollywood ("The Doctor's Wife"), Broadway Television Theatre ("Outward Bound", "The Hasty Heart"), Suspense ("The Invisible Killer", "The Tenth Reunion"), General Electric Theatre ("The Coward of Fort Bennett") and Schlitz Playhouse ("And Practically Strangers"). Other theatre performances in stock included The Male Animal (1954). Dall returned to Broadway for Leslie Stevens' Champagne Complex, which had a short run in 1955. Later career Dall's first film in eight years was Spartacus (1960), where he played a Roman soldier based on Gaius Claudius Glaber. He was the villain in MGM's Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961), his final theatrical feature. Dall guest-starred in four episodes of TV's Perry Mason, including playing murder victim Edward Franklin in the 1962