Fresh
Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy.
Ed Park, Village Voice
Sorry, Wrong Number
Tangled Wires... Whispering of Murder! Tangled Lives... Fighting to Escape!
1948 · 1h 29m · Approved
Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Anatole Litvak
Overview
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Director and cast
- Anatole Litvak Director
- Barbara Stanwyck as Leona Stevenson
- Burt Lancaster as Henry Stevenson
- Ann Richards as Sally Hunt Lord
- Wendell Corey as Dr. Alexander
- Harold Vermilyea as Waldo Evans
- Ed Begley as James Cotterell
- Leif Erickson as Fred Lord
- William Conrad Cast
- John Bromfield Cast
- Jimmy Hunt Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
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.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Stanwyck's metamorphosis from indolence to hysteria is brilliantly executed.
Time Out
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