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The Wrong Man

1956

Alfred Hitchcock

Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone ...

7.2

8,510

Mystery. Drama. Film noir Manny Ballestero (Henry Fonda) is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny and his family.

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Few films play so tightly on the contrast between unimpeachably concrete details and the vertiginous pretenses of reality"	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"The sense of moral responsibility in Hitchcock’s films may have never felt more imperative and succinct"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"The bleakest of Hitchcock's films"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Alfred Hitchcock draws upon real-life drama for this gripping piece of realism"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Hitchcock's coldest, hardest movie until its controversial ending"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"The picture has an almost Kafkaesque nightmare realism to it, but the story line wanders diffusely instead of tightening, and the developments become tedious"	NEU

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