The Wrong Man (1956)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

drama film, film noir, docudrama, crime film, trial film, crime drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 617 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An innocent man is mistaken for a violent criminal and arrested. As he tries to prove his innocence, the ordeal puts a severe strain on his family.

slow-burntensemelancholicbleakanxiety-inducinggrittydocudrama feelrestrained

What happens

The Wrong Man is a 1956 American docudrama film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson and in the magazine article "A Case of Identity", which was published in Life magazine in June 1953 by Herbert Brean. It is recognized as the only Hitchcock film based on a true story and whose plot closely follows the real-life events. The Wrong Man had a notable effect on two significant directors: it prompted Jean-Luc Godard's longest piece of written criticism in his years as a critic, and it has been cited as an influence on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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