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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:18

Rotten:3

Average Rating:6.8/10

Runtime: 89 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson, William Conrad, John Bromfield, Jimmy Hunt, Dorothy Neumann

Director: Anatole Litvak

Director: Anatole Litvak
Screenwriter: Lucille Fletcher
Producer: Anatole Litvak, Hal B. Wallis
Composer: Franz Waxman

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Stanwyck was too strong to play this simpering role.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
10/10/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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06/24/08
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Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy.

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01/02/08
Ed Park
Ed Park
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Both Lancaster and Stanwyck are excellent.

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01/02/08
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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.

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01/02/08
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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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.

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11/04/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Stanwyck's metamorphosis from indolence to hysteria is brilliantly executed.

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06/24/06
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Perhaps if you have a special interest in foul folks and morbidities, you will thrill to this Hal Wallis picture. Frankly, we squirmed -- and not from dread.

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03/25/06
Bosley Crowther
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New York Times
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dark and terrifying

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09/30/05
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Vintage suspense with terrific Stanwyck, Lancaster

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07/22/05
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Fletcher adapted her celebrated 22-minute, single-character radio play into an almost equally tense screenplay, still retaining many of the eerie sound effects.

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01/15/05
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The film’s basic premise is just too compelling to resist.

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11/06/04
Douglas Pratt
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DVDLaser

No review available.

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10/12/04
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

A bit drawn-out, but a sensational vehicle for Stanwyck's talents

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10/07/04
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

It is a carefully plotted film that leads to an extraordinary ironic climax.

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03/16/04
Jamie Gillies
Jamie Gillies
Apollo Guide

A good script, but it should have been filmed with the woman who made it famous on the stage, Agnes Moorehead.

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07/22/03
Matt Bailey
Matt Bailey
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[A] taut thriller.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Effective suspense film.

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12/11/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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10/30/02
Philip Martin
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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10/04/02
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