The Wrong Man
by Alfred Hitchcock
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Actor: Anthony Quayle, Charles Cooper, Harold J. Stone, Henry Fonda, Vera MilesDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Editor: George Tomasini
Producer: Herbert Coleman
Writer: Angus MacPhail
Writer: Maxwell Anderson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Wrong Man
Movie Review: "An innocent man has nothing to fear, remember that"
Summary: 5 Stars
Apparently the innocent man has plenty to fear, and that is the subject of this curious film by Alfred Hitchcock. Although the theme of false accusation is one that Hitchcock would use repeatedly throughout his career, THE WRONG MAN is a different kind of a Hitchcock film in many ways.
This film claims to be--and in fact is--a true story (it was based upon a 1952 LIFE magazine article "The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero") and Hitchcock went to great lengths in minimizing the fictionalization of any part of this narrative. The result is quite a serious film. Henry Fonda plays Manny Balestrero, a devoted family man who plays bass at night for local nightclub band. Based on faulty eyewitness identification, he is accused of committing a string of armed hold-ups that have been plaguing his neighborhood.
Now, in the usual Hitchcock film, the hero of the story would go on the lam, meet up with a beautiful blonde, and set about solving the mystery and clearing his own name. That does not happen here. We follow Balestrero through the tedious but very real process of being accused, processed, and jailed while his wife Rose (Vera Miles) slowly suffers a complete mental breakdown. So serious is this film, in fact, that Hitchcock forgoes his usual cameo role and instead appears during a prologue to the film explaining the film's basis in fact.
THE WRONG MAN has a documentary feel to it reflecting the considerable efforts by Hitchcock to be true to the real story. In many cases, in fact, the picture was filmed in the actual locations where the true to life events took place, including The Stork Club in Manhattan, the police precinct house in Queens, and the actual insurance office where one of the original armed robberies took place. Hitchcock even filmed in the psychiatric ward where Rose Balestrero was committed with the real doctors playing themselves!
THE WRONG MAN is not an exciting film and it lacks the usual humor of a Hitchcock outing, but it was never intended to be exciting or funny. This film is pure drama and realism, and one gets the feeling that this film was made because Hitchcock felt that it was immensely important to make. Still, Hitchcock had his reservations about his results. He once stated "it's possible I was too concerned with veracity to take sufficient dramatic license." Nevertheless, THE WRONG MAN is a remarkable film in the catalogue of realism and should not be missed.
Jeremy W. Forstadt
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