Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for he husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Anatole Litvak
Written By: Lucille Fletcher
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Leif Erickson, William Conrad, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, John Bromfield, Ann Richards, Dorothy Neumann, Harold Vermilyea, Jimmy Hunt, Paul Fierro
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Country: USA
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Dally | 60 24th |
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You think you know the ending, and you do. But you don't! Too bad that the endless parade of flashbacks undermine the thrills of the story. And Stanwyck, tough and powerful, is unbelievable as an invalid. Her screen persona just does not complement such a weak character. I still love her, though.
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jstry | 68 50th |
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Not bad, but not as suspenseful as I'd anticipated. Can't compare to Hitchcock. Throughout a lot of the movie, I felt that they should have been evoking more sympathy for Leona, so that I'd actually care if she got killed or not, but the ending kind of made up for that. All in all, I think it was decent, but not great.
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| 1 | gleeb | 71 42nd |
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Yeah, it's a little overcomplicated and artificial, but it has a pretty good third act. Look for William Conrad as a calmly menacing racketeer.
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hellsditch | 74 32nd |
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Ok, definite points for going with the ending that they did. That's always to be admired. But I felt there was something missing here. The shots of the shadowy intruder were great at building suspense, so why were there so few shots of him? Also, the flashbacks within flashbacks were a little hard to keep track of at times.
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iceblox | 79 85th |
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Pretty good stuff. Litvak knits together quite a complicated plot, unfurled thread by thread over telephone conversations, which makes for some suspenseful viewing.
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jeff_v | 64 36th |
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Too high-strung to really work effectively as suspense. There's nowhere to go, dramatically, when it's pitched at hysteria right from the start. That said, the restrictive use of location works well.
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| Average Percentile 58.46% from 308 Ratings |  |