Sorry, Wrong Number

Tangled Wires... Whispering of Murder! Tangled Lives... Fighting to Escape!

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DVD Features:

Rated: Not Rated
Closed captioning available
Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
Video: Black & White
Released: October 24, 2017
Originally Released: 1948
Label: Paramount
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:

Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, French
Subtitles - English

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Barbara Stanwyck & Burt Lancaster
Performer:		Wendell Corey, Ann Richards, Ed Begley, Harold Vermilyea, Leif Erickson, John Bromfield, Jimmy Hunt, Dorothy Neumann & William Conrad
Directed by		Anatole Litvak
Edited by		Warren Low
Screenplay by		Lucille Fletcher
Composition by		Franz Waxman
Art Direction by		Hans Dreier & Earl Hedrick
Produced by		Anatole Litvak & Hal B. Wallis
Director of Photography:		Sol Polito

Entertainment Reviews:

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Jan 16, 2005

New York Times

Mar 25, 2006

Time Out

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Chicago Reader

Jan 2, 2008

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Nov 4, 2007

TV Guide

Jan 2, 2008

Product Description:

In director Anatole Litvak's superb thriller SORRY, WRONG NUMBER, Barbara Stanwyck stars as the alluring, wealthy, and irritating Leona Stevenson, a hypochondriac whose psychosomatic illness has her bedridden. Leona's only lifeline is the telephone, which she uses to excess. One evening, Leona impatiently tries to locate her henpecked husband Henry (Burt Lancaster), who is late in coming home. However, when phone lines cross, she overhears two thugs plotting a murder. Desperate to thwart the crime, Leona begins a series of calls--to the operator, to the police, and others--and eventually deduces the shocking identity of the victim. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Leona, Henry is having problems of his own--he's become involved in a swindle and is being blackmailed. Featuring stunning use of sound and lighting, SORRY, WRONG NUMBER follows Leona, trapped in her lush apartment, as she tries to prevent an innocent from being murdered.

Plot Synopsis:

An invalid heiress whose husband is being blackmailed overhears a murder plot on a crossed-wire telephone connection.

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Production Notes:

SORRY WRONG NUMBER was originally a 22-minute radio play, done in 1943 with Agnes Moorehead as Leona.
Lucille Fletcher wrote the screenplay from her own radio play.
Director Anatole Litvak shot all of Stanwyck's scenes in sequence over a span of 12 days.
Burt Lancaster convinced the producer that he would be right for the role of Henry--even though he was the strong and imposing type--because he thought it provided more motivation if a strong, confident man had allowed himself to be destroyed by his wife's shrewish behavior.