WRONG MAN, THE (1956)
Actor Henry Fonda's only film for Alfred Hitchcock is a uniquely sober retelling of true events by the typically sardonic director, experimenting in the neorealist style of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica that had recently impressed him. Stork Club bassist Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda) is mistakenly ID'ed as a stickup man — he has the bad luck of being a dead ringer for the perp — and thrown into the slammer. Manny is confident that it's just a case of mistaken identity that will be sorted out in time, but his fragile wife Rose (Vera Miles), shaken by the experience and convinced that their good name has been ruined, spirals into a dangerous depression. DIR/PROD Alfred Hitchcock; SCR Angus MacPhail, Maxwell Anderson, from his book "The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero." U.S., 1956, b&w, 105 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, September 09, 2022
Genre: Film noir
