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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
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Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster star in Sorry, Wrong Number, an odd telephonic thriller that starts off with a bang. Stanwyck, playing a shrill invalid, is at home alone and phoning around to find her husband. Thanks to a crossed wire, she overhears a murder plot, but she can barely get anyone to pay attention to her, let alone believe her. The rest of the film is played out in telephone conversations and flashbacks as our increasingly frightened heroine tries to find her husband and unravel the murder. Stanwyck, as always, gives a terrific performance, managing to make her character both unlikeable and compelling at the same...
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| Sorry, Wrong Number Movie Review by Eric Somer (7/23/2006) |
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This 1948 interpretation of Sorry, Wrong Number, directed by Anatole Litvak and written by Lucille Fletcher (based on her radio play), encompasses many of the themes and motifs central to the American film noir cycle: women who are something other than what they seem, men who are tempted by the allure of money to commit...
(complete Sorry, Wrong Number review by Eric Somer)
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