The Wrong Man (1956)
Country: US
Technical: bw 105m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Synopsis:
A bass player called Manny Balestrero is wrongfully picked up for armed robbery because of a passing resemblance to the culprit. The film charts the impact this has on his life, as his willingness to cooperate with the police only seems to increase the suspicion in which he is held.
Review:
Hitchcock's lifelong fascination with the ordeal of police custody, and the theme of innocence wrongly accused, surface again in this oddly uninvolving drama, based on an incident in 1953. The concept of faithfully reconstructing the events from the point of view of the protagonist sits uneasily with the director's flamboyant narrative language, which invariably depends on knowledge shared by the audience but not necessarily by the characters.
Country: US
Technical: bw 105m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Synopsis:
A bass player called Manny Balestrero is wrongfully picked up for armed robbery because of a passing resemblance to the culprit. The film charts the impact this has on his life, as his willingness to cooperate with the police only seems to increase the suspicion in which he is held.
Review:
Hitchcock's lifelong fascination with the ordeal of police custody, and the theme of innocence wrongly accused, surface again in this oddly uninvolving drama, based on an incident in 1953. The concept of faithfully reconstructing the events from the point of view of the protagonist sits uneasily with the director's flamboyant narrative language, which invariably depends on knowledge shared by the audience but not necessarily by the characters.
Country: US
Technical: bw 105m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Synopsis:
A bass player called Manny Balestrero is wrongfully picked up for armed robbery because of a passing resemblance to the culprit. The film charts the impact this has on his life, as his willingness to cooperate with the police only seems to increase the suspicion in which he is held.
Review:
Hitchcock's lifelong fascination with the ordeal of police custody, and the theme of innocence wrongly accused, surface again in this oddly uninvolving drama, based on an incident in 1953. The concept of faithfully reconstructing the events from the point of view of the protagonist sits uneasily with the director's flamboyant narrative language, which invariably depends on knowledge shared by the audience but not necessarily by the characters.