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... [More]
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey
Director: Anatole Litvak
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Reviews for Sorry, Wrong Number
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Stanwyck was too strong to play this simpering role. Full Review |
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Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Both Lancaster and Stanwyck are excellent. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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 |
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Stanwyck's metamorphosis from indolence to hysteria is brilliantly executed. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
dark and terrifying
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4/5 |
Vintage suspense with terrific Stanwyck, Lancaster
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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 |
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4/5 |
The film’s basic premise is just too compelling to resist.
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4/5 |
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4/5 |
A bit drawn-out, but a sensational vehicle for Stanwyck's talents
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75/100 |
It is a carefully plotted film that leads to an extraordinary ironic climax. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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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[A] taut thriller. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Effective suspense film.
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3/5 |
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