Dial "M" For Murder

Dial "M" For Murder

In the screen play, “Dial “M” For Murder”;   The character known as Captain Lesgate, is a man with a shady reputation.   Even in his college years he was suspected of stealing ticket money form a college event and framing the old porter.  
After college he was court-martialed during the war and spent a year in prison.   After prison he made a living off of courting well to do woman, always changing his name to some other alias.  
Here is an excerpt for example.   TONY:   In fact, there was nothing really illegal about you.   I got quite discouraged, and then one day you disappeared from your lodgings.   So I phoned your landlady.   I said, “Mr. Adams owed me five pounds.”   Apparently that was nothing.   Mr. Adams owed her six weeks’ rent and her best lodger fifty-five pound!   And Mr. Adams had always been such a nice gentleman.   That’s what seemed to upset her most.   LESGATE:   Yes, that’s what always upsets them most.   Then a little later on in the story Tony says;   TONY:   You should know.   It was in all the papers.   A middle-aged woman found dead due to an overdose of cocaine.   Appeared as though she’d been taking the stuff for quite a time--but no one knows where she got it..   But we know-- don’t we?   Poor Miss Wallace!   Yes, you should take a long holiday abroad.   Surely a honeymoon with Mrs. Van Dorn would be preferable to ten years’ detention at Dartmoor.   My thousands pounds should see you safely married to her.   You’ll find it makes such a difference to have some money in the family.   LESGATE:   This thousand pounds--where is it?
Lesgates’ roll in the story is to kill Margot Wendince, Tony Wendince wife.   He is blackmailed and hired by Tony as a hit man.   From an excerpt in the screen play where Tony is on the phone with his wife and in the company of Mr. Lesgate who has just been told how the murder will take place we see even more of his shadiness.
TONY:   All right.   ‘Bye, Sweet..enjoy yourself.   (Tony hangs up, then looks...