The Wrong Man

Name: The Wrong Man
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Released: January 26, 1957
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Anthony Quayle, Charles Cooper, Doreen Lang, Esther Minciotti, Harold J. Stone

1957

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: January 26, 1957 | TV-PG

Starring: Anthony Quayle, Charles Cooper, Doreen Lang, Esther Minciotti, Harold J. Stone, Henry Fonda, John Heldabrand, Laurinda Barrett, Norma Connolly, Vera Miles

Summary: In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 105 min

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Eric Henderson

The sense of moral responsibility in Hitchcock’s films may have never felt more imperative and succinct. Read full review

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Scott Tobias

The Wrong Man, an overlooked masterpiece from his greatest decade, eschews suspense for the straight-up nightmare of an innocent man dragged through the justice system. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

The bleakest of Hitchcock's films, this stark, deliberate probing of a man wrongfully accused is almost wholly based on fact, creating its drama from a celebrated New York City case. Read full review

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Hitchcock's most sombre film, unrelieved by his usual macabre humour; the black-and-white photography and the persecuted Fonda's sharply chiselled features lend an impressive documentary feel. Read full review

Richard Brody

Hitchcock’s ultimate point evokes cosmic terror: innocence is merely a trick of paperwork, whereas guilt is the human condition. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

Hitchcock's coldest, hardest movie until its controversial ending. Read full review

A.H. Weiler

Frighteningly authentic, the story generates only a modicum of drama. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jan 12, 2022

This film will have a more resonant effectiveness if you are very sure of what you expect from it as a viewer. And therefore its quality as a whole depends on it.

This is something that happens with any movie, but one with Alfred Hitchcock as a director carries a very different weight. TheThis film will have a more resonant effectiveness if you are very sure of what you expect from it as a viewer. And therefore its quality as a whole depends on it.

This is something that happens with any movie, but one with Alfred Hitchcock as a director carries a very different weight.

The suspense and drama are modest and I think that's why this film is considered one of Hitchcock's most underrated works. Still, even with its lack of a little more excitement, I really think it should be more appreciated.

Far from amazing or anything like that, but I think it was good.… Expand

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