Stanwyck was too strong to play this simpering role.
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10/10/08
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
86 %
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Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 19
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 her bedridden. Leona's only... [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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06/24/08
Top Critic
Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy.
01/02/08
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Top Critic 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.
01/02/08
Top Critic 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.
11/04/07
Stanwyck's metamorphosis from indolence to hysteria is brilliantly executed.
06/24/06
Top Critic 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.
03/25/06
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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.
01/15/05
Top Critic It is a carefully plotted film that leads to an extraordinary ironic climax.
03/16/04
A good script, but it should have been filmed with the woman who made it famous on the stage, Agnes Moorehead.
07/22/03
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