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23 December 1956 (USA)
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The police were convinced... The witnesses were positive ...Yet he was... THE WRONG MAN more
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True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal. full summary | full synopsis
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Hitchcock's scariest film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Henry Fonda | ... | Christopher Emanuel 'Manny' Balestrero |
 | Vera Miles | ... | Rose Balestrero |
 | Anthony Quayle | ... | Frank D. O'Connor |
 | Harold J. Stone | ... | Detective Lt. Bowers |
| Charles Cooper | ... | Detective Matthews |
| John Heldabrand | ... | Tomasini |
| Esther Minciotti | ... | Mama Balestrero |
| Doreen Lang | ... | Ann James |
| Laurinda Barrett | ... | Constance Willis |
| Norma Connolly | ... | Betty Todd |
 | Nehemiah Persoff | ... | Eugene 'Gene' Conforti |
| Lola D'Annunzio | ... | Olga Conforti, Manny's Sister |
| Kippy Campbell | ... | Robert Balestrero |
| Robert Essen | ... | Gregory Balestrero |
| Richard Robbins | ... | Daniel, the guilty man |
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105 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) |
UK:A (1957) |
UK:PG (1988) |
Brazil:16 |
Canada:14A (video rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U (re-release) |
Peru:14 |
USA:Approved (PCA #18117) |
West Germany:12
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According to Book "It’s only a movie", Hitchcock asked John Michael Hayes to work on the treatment and screenplay of The Wrong Man, also without a fee, but for a percentage of the profits. Hayes declined, and their four-picture relationship ended.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Manny enters prison, a prisoner shouts "What'd they get you for, Henry?", using the actor's name, Henry Fonda.
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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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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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Referenced in Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' (2000) (V)
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THE WRONG MAN has to be the scariest film made by Alfred Hitchcock. The driving force is it's realism. Based on a true story, we follow a struggling Queens musician (Henry Fonda) falsly accused of local robberies. We don't have suave Cary Grant dodging cropdusters or Mount Rushmore. There is no darkly funny Robert Walker making quips about murder. It's all frightfully real- the arrest process, the breakdown of Fonda's family (An incredible performance by Vera Miles as his wife) and the grueling courtroom process. The opening hour of unsmiling detectives checking Fonda's story, and watching Fonda become more defenseless is outright chilling.