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Henry Fonda is perfectly cast as the financially struggling nightclub musician who is mistakenly identified as a robber when he attempts to cash in his wife's life-insurance policy to pay for her much-needed dental work. Vera Miles is equally superb as the suffering wife, who ultimately cracks under the pressure of her husband's wrongful accusation and the drawn-out process of proving his innocence. Through all of this, Hitchcock pays close attention to the mundane details of police procedure, intensifying Fonda's desperation and the narrative tension that was Hitchcock's directorial trademark. As it happens, the strict adherence to factual detail--no matter how absurd or incredible--also renders The Wrong Man somewhat weaker than Hitchcock's classic plots, since in this case truth is decidedly stranger than fiction. Nevertheless, this is still a riveting film that fits quite nicely alongside Hitchcock's better-known films of the 1950s. (Interesting trivia: Miles--who would later appear in Psycho, was Hitchcock's first choice for the Kim Novak role in Vertigo, and Hitchcock was vocally annoyed when Miles's pregnancy prevented her from taking the role that could have made her a star.) --Jeff Shannon
| ACTORS: | Henry Fonda, Vera Miles |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 23 December, 1956 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama, Movie, Mystery / Suspense / Thriller |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 085391745334 |
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"THE WRONG MAN"- starring Henry Fonda This is a scary story of what can happen to anyone who falls victim to mistaken identity and a lesson to those who somehow believe that police or law enforcement and even witnesses or accusers are never or seldom wrong. "The Wrong Man" is also an eye opener to the fact that somewhere we all have a double or someone who resembles us very much and the trouble that sometimes this can cause anyone. <
>Coincidentally filmed and released right around the same time another Fonda great, "Twelve Angry Men", was, "The Wrong Man" is in my opinion, equal, in pointing out that the legal system can go wrong, but both films in their endings, send messages of hope on how wrongs are sometimes corrected.
False imprisonment, the most grievous of wrongs!
The response to possible injustice is all too typical of the criminal justice system... We always hear the stories of innocent persons wrongfully convicted by mistaken identification, false confessions, crime-lab fraud, jailhouse snitches, lying "expert witnesses," incompetent or uninvolved defense attorneys, and police frame-ups...
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>Criminologists have known that eyewitnesses are as likely to be wrong as right... But despite the undeniable fact that an eyewitness is no better than a flip of a coin, police, prosecutors and juries put great weight on eyewitness evidence even in cases where suspects have unshakable alibis...
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>False confessions arise from any number of known reasons... Yet once police get a confession (even ones they invent) prosecutors take for granted the reliability of the confession...
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>The Mexican public, especially "law and order" conservatives, must come to grips with the fact that our criminal justice system increasingly serves causes other than justice... Finding a suspect and convicting him is more important to many police and prosecutors than getting the right man...
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>The ease with which innocents can be railroaded is scary enough... But the obstructions that prosecutors raise to the release of inmates known to be innocent reveals an inhumanity that is frightening...
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>The Mexican justice system is loaded against the wrongfully convicted... Consequently, the wrongfully convicted serve longer terms than the guilty... No one knows how many people are wrongly imprisoned... But in every part of this world, the problem is clearly too large to ignore...
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>'The Wrong Man' concerns Christopher Emmuanuel 'Manny' Balestrero (Henry Fonda), a family man and a New York jazz musician, with a devoted wife and two young boys, wrongly identified by several witnesses as the perpetrator of a number of hold-up...
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>The evidence is against him because he fits the description! The actual criminal looks almost identical to him... In minute detail we watch him being humiliated by the process of justice that is supposed to protect him...
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>From his arrest to his fingerprinting, handcuffing, and jailing, we follow, with real anguish, how an innocent man is intimidated and humiliated... Fonda's characters were often associated with injustice, most notably in 'Let Us Leave,' and 'The Ox-Bow Incident.'
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>By imposing his own highly individual style, Hitchcock treats this incident as if it really was a miracle... For if the picture points out anything, it is that justice can be vindictive and cruel and that anyone could become the wrong man...
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>Vera Miles is well cast as Manny's disturbed wife who slowly loses her sanity while her husband awaits trial... Her slow transformation from an outraged citizen into an apathetic mental case is handled sensitively...
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>Anthony Quayle is excellent as Fonda's attorney, and Harold Stone is very good as Lt. Bowers...
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>Photographed in Black and White, 'The Wrong Man' is a nightmare of reality that could happen to anyone...
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FONDA IS GREAT!!!
This is a really good movie! Henry Fonda plays it perfect! Hitchcock and suspense are one and the same. I forgot just what a great movie this was til I saw it again!