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Bookmark this pageSorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Director: Anatole Litvak
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From Time Out Film Guide
Stanwyck in one of her most famous roles, as an invalid who overhears a telephone conversation between conspiring murderers, and slowly realises that she is their intended victim. Based on Lucille Fletcher's celebrated 22-minute radio play, the film is none the less well sustained. Litvak's camera paces the confines of Stanwyck's lacy bedroom like an accused man in his cell; and although she is for the most part restricted to acting from the head up, Stanwyck's metamorphosis from indolence to hysteria is brilliantly executed.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Anatole Litvak
Producer: Hal B Wallis, Anatole Litvak
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, William Conrad, Leif Erickson full cast
Genre(s): Film Noir
Duration: 89 mins
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