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Overview
Release Date:
23 December 1956 (USA) moreTagline:
The police were convinced... The witnesses were positive ...Yet he was... THE WRONG MAN morePlot Keywords:
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Unexpected jewel from the Master moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Henry Fonda | ... | Christopher Emmanuel 'Manny' Balestrero | |
| Vera Miles | ... | Rose Balestrero | |
| Anthony Quayle | ... | Frank D. O'Connor | |
| Harold J. Stone | ... | Det. Lt. Bowers | |
| John Heldabrand | ... | Tomasini | |
| Doreen Lang | ... | Ann James | |
| Norma Connolly | ... | Betty Todd | |
| Lola D'Annunzio | ... | Olga Conforti, Manny's Sister | |
| Robert Essen | ... | Gregory Balestrero | |
| Dayton Lummis | ... | Judge Groat | |
| Charles Cooper | ... | Det. Matthews | |
| Esther Minciotti | ... | Mama Balestrero | |
| Laurinda Barrett | ... | Constance Willis | |
| Nehemiah Persoff | ... | Eugene 'Gene' Conforti | |
| Kippy Campbell | ... | Robert Balestrero |
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105 minCountry:
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Certification:
UK:PG (1988) | UK:A (1957) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U (re-release) | Peru:14 | USA:Approved (PCA #18117) | West Germany:12MOVIEmeter: 
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Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock]narrating the film's prologue. The only time he actually spoke in any of his films. moreGoofs:
Crew or equipment visible: As Rose is being led up the stairs of the mental treatment facility, the shadow of someone's head appears in the bottom left corner behind the lamp. It seems as though someone walked past a bulb. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Prologue narrator: This is Alfred Hitchcock speaking. In the past, I have given you many kinds of suspense pictures. But this time, I would like you to see a different one. The difference lies in the fact that this is a true story, every word of it. And yet it contains elements that are stranger than all the fiction that has gone into many of the thrillers that I've made before.
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This is a terrific, dark, taut thriller from Hitchcock, based on a true story. Not his usual ostentatious style, but it plays on the theme of a wrong man caught up in extraordinary events beyond his control (REAR WINDOW, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, PSYCHO).
It may be Hitchcock's most cynical film. Henry Fonda plays a man falsely accused of armed robbery. He is a quiet man, whose life gets turned upside down as a result.
Hitchcock spares us nothing of the horror of the predicament of Fonda's situation. He shows many of the details of how Fonda is accused, arrested, and tried in real time, so we are as fully worn down as the protagonist.
The plot was quite unbelievable by 1950s standards that Hitch needed all the realism he could muster. For example, Hitchcock himself introduces the film in a prologue, to verify that it is indeed based on a true story. Also, don't look for his trademark cameo - he did shoot a scene where he was a customer in a store, but that scene ended up getting cut. Hitchcock personally interviewed all of the participants in the real live drama. And the doctor at the sanitarium is played not by an actor, but by a real doctor.