Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)

Directed by

Jean Negulesco

Genre

drama film, film noir, melodrama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is the sole survivor of a plane crash. He reaches out to the families of three fellow passengers he met on the flight. The film uses flashbacks to show the lives and secrets of the people who died.

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What happens

Phone Call from a Stranger is a 1952 American film noir drama directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, based on the 1950 novelette of the same name by I. A. R. Wylie. The film centers on the survivor of an aircraft crash who contacts the relatives of three of the victims he came to know on board the flight. The story employs flashbacks to relive the three characters' pasts. At the 13th Venice International Film Festival, the film earned Negulesco a nomination for the Golden Lion, while Johnson was nominated for the Golden Osella for Best Original Screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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