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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,884
Stanwyck's metamorphosis from indolence to hysteria is brilliantly executed. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: 4/4 -- Both Lancaster and Stanwyck are excellent. Full Review
TV Guide
Jan 2, 2008
Rating: 4/5 -- Vintage suspense with terrific Stanwyck, Lancaster
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Jul 22, 2005
Rating: B+ -- Anatole Litvak's taut, gripping, highly stylized noir, based a 22 minute radio play with Agnes Moorehead, is one of the genre's very best, with a bed-ridden Stanwyck in a tour de force performance--a case study for lover of film noir. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Nov 4, 2007
Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy. Full Review
Village Voice
Jan 2, 2008
To make a movie of Lucille Fletcher's classic radio play was really to betray its best idea: that sound, not sight, is the truly paranoid sense. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 2, 2008
Fletcher adapted her celebrated 22-minute, single-character radio play into an almost equally tense screenplay, still retaining many of the eerie sound effects. Full Review
Film4
Jan 16, 2005

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.

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  • UPC: 032429287380
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