Sorry, Wrong Number (DVD)
When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30- minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an 89-minute feature fi lm, she opted on the Citizen Kane approach, filling the plotline to the brim with revelatory flashbacks. Barbara Stanwyck stars as bedridden hy pochondriac Leona Stevenson, who while trying to make a call from her be droom telephone gets her wires crossed and inadvertently overhears two men plotting a murder. Anxiously, Leona wades through telephone-company bureaucracy to trace the ca ll, never catching onuntil it's too latethat the murder being planned is hers. A series of flashbacks details the disintegrati ng marriage between the wealthy Leona and her weakling husband Henry (Burt Lancaster), and Henry's subsequent disastrous get-ri ch-qu ick schemes involving chemist Waldo Evans (Harold Vermilyea) and a surly gangster (William Conrad). It would have been a near-sacril ege t o alter the radio play's ironic ending, which fortunately remains intact on film. Sorry Wrong Number was first heard on radio's Suspense series in 1943, with Agnes Moorehead as the harried Mrs. Stevenson (a role she 'd repeat several times on radio and on stag e). Though disappointed tha t she wasn't chosen to star in the film version, Moorehead took some sat isfaction in the fact that a reco rding of the original radio program wa s played constantly on the set to help keep Barbara Stanwyck "in the moo d".
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Genre: Classics, Drama, Mystery & Suspense/Thrillers
Format: Multiple Formats, NTSC, Black & White
Contributor: John Bromfield, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Neumann, Igor Dega, Garry Owen, Wendell Corey, Jimmy Hunt, Yola d'Avril, Pepito Prez, Anatole Litvak, Joyce Compton, Grace Poggi, Ed Begley, William Conrad, Ashley Cowan, Tito Vuolo, Ann Richards, Leif Erickson, Burt Lancaster, Harold VermilyeaSee more
Runtime: 1 hour and 29 minutes
Color: Unknown
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer:No
MPAA rating:NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions:7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
Director:Anatole Litvak
Media Format:Multiple Formats, NTSC, Black & White
Run time:1 hour and 29 minutes
Release date:May 28, 2002
Actors:Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea
Language:English (Mono), French (Mono)
Studio:Warner Bros.
