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Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Maxwell Anderson (screenplay) and
Angus MacPhail (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 January 1957 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir See more »
Tagline:
The police were convinced... The witnesses were positive ...Yet he was... THE WRONG MAN See more »
Plot:
True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal. Full summary » | Full synopsis »
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Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

Henry Fonda ... Manny Balestrero

Vera Miles ... Rose Balestrero
Anthony Quayle ... Frank D. O'Connor

Harold J. Stone ... Det. Lt. Bowers
Charles Cooper ... Det. Matthews
John Heldabrand ... Tomasini
Esther Minciotti ... Mama Balestrero
Doreen Lang ... Ann James
Laurinda Barrett ... Constance Willis
Norma Connolly ... Betty Todd

Nehemiah Persoff ... Gene Conforti
Lola D'Annunzio ... Olga Conforti
Kippy Campbell ... Robert Balestrero
Robert Essen ... Gregory Balestrero
Richard Robbins ... Daniel - the Guilty Man
Dayton Lummis ... Judge Groat
Peggy Webber ... Miss Dennerly
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charles Aidman ... Jail Medical Attendant (uncredited)
Sammy Armaro ... Suspect (uncredited)
Michael Ann Barrett ... Mrs. Daily (uncredited)
John C. Becher ... Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Henry Beckman ... Prisoner at Arraignment Hearing (uncredited)
Ray Bennett ... Policeman (uncredited)
Harold Berman ... Court Stenographer (uncredited)
Sherman Billingsley ... Himself (uncredited)
Mary Boylan ... Curious Customer (uncredited)
Claudia Bryar ... Small Role (uncredited)
Paul Bryar ... Interrogation Officer (uncredited)
Ed Bryce ... Court Officer (uncredited)
John Caler ... Soldier (uncredited)
Leonard Capone ... Court Clerk (uncredited)
Paul Carr ... Young Man (uncredited)
Dee Carroll ... Small Role (uncredited)
Gordon B. Clarke ... Police Attendant (uncredited)
William Crane ... Juror (uncredited)
Spencer Davis ... Prisoner's Lawyer (uncredited)
M'el Dowd ... Nurse (uncredited)
Josef Draper ... Juror (uncredited)
Richard Durham ... Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
Olga Fabian ... Mrs. Mank (uncredited)

Bonnie Franklin ... Young Girl (uncredited)
Chris Gampel ... Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
Earl George ... Delicatessen Proprietor (uncredited)
Will Gregory ... Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
Charles J. Guiotta ... Court Officer (uncredited)
Irene Harbor ... Small Role (uncredited)
Cherry Hardy ... Waving Woman (uncredited)
Will Hare ... Raymond McKaba (uncredited)
Rhodelle Heller ... Stork Club Customer (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock ... Prologue Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
William Hudson ... Police Lieutenant from 110th Precinct (uncredited)
Anna Karen ... Miss Duffield (uncredited)
Barbara Karen ... Giggly Girl (uncredited)
Mike Keene ... Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)

David Kelly ... Policeman (uncredited)

Werner Klemperer ... Dr. Bannay (uncredited)
Walter Kohler ... Manny's Felony Court Attorney (uncredited)
William LeMassena ... Sang (uncredited)
Maurice Manson ... District Attorney John Hall (uncredited)
Barney Martin ... Juror (uncredited)
Donald May ... Arresting Patrolman (uncredited)
Marc May ... Tomasini's Assistant (uncredited)

Don McGovern ... Waving Man (uncredited)
John McKee ... Police Turnkey (uncredited)
Dallas Midgette ... Customer at Bickford's (uncredited)
Silvio Minciotti ... Mr. Balestrero (uncredited)
Patricia Morrow ... Young Girl (uncredited)
Thomas J. Murphy ... Court Officer (uncredited)
Daniel Ocko ... Felony Court Judge (uncredited)
Natalie Priest ... Delicatessen Proprietor's Wife (uncredited)
Fred Purcelli ... Small Role (uncredited)
Allan Ray ... Suspect (uncredited)
Frances Reid ... Mrs. O'Connor (voice) (uncredited)
Maria Reid ... Spanish Woman (uncredited)
Rossana San Marco ... Mrs. Ferraro (uncredited)
Penny Santon ... Spanish Woman (uncredited)
Frank Schofield ... Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
Elizabeth Scott ... Waving Woman (uncredited)
Helen Shields ... Receptionist (uncredited)
Otto Simánek ... Mr. Mank (uncredited)
Oliver Stacey ... Stork Club Customer (uncredited)

Harry Dean Stanton ... Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
John Stephen ... Stork Club Customer (uncredited)
Clarence Straight ... Policeman (uncredited)
Ruth Swanson ... Small Role (uncredited)
Dino Tarronova ... Mr. Ferraro (uncredited)
Dan Terranova ... Mr. Ferraro (uncredited)
Emerson Treacy ... Mr. Wendon (uncredited)
John Truax ... Suspect (uncredited)
Don Turner ... Detective (uncredited)
John Vivyan ... Det. Holman (uncredited)

Tuesday Weld ... Giggly Girl (uncredited)
Maurice Wells ... Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
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Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock 
 
Writing credits
Maxwell Anderson (screenplay) and
Angus MacPhail (screenplay)

Maxwell Anderson (story)

Produced by
Herbert Coleman .... associate producer
Alfred Hitchcock .... producer (uncredited)
 
Original Music by
Bernard Herrmann 
 
Cinematography by
Robert Burks (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
George Tomasini 
 
Art Direction by
Paul Sylbert 
 
Set Decoration by
William L. Kuehl 
 
Makeup Department
Gordon Bau .... makeup supervisor
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Daniel McCauley .... assistant director (as Daniel J. McCauley)
 
Art Department
Fred Ballmeyer .... props (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Earl Crain Sr. .... sound
Monty Pearce .... sound editor (uncredited)
Arthur H. Pullen .... sound editor (uncredited)
Paul Reuting .... sound editor (uncredited)
 
Stunts
Lucky Kargo .... stunts (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Alan Stetson .... key grip
Frank J. Calabria .... additional photographer (uncredited)
 
Editorial Department
Sam O'Steen .... assistant film editor (uncredited)
 
Other crew
George Groves .... technical advisor (as George Groves Sergeant New York City Police Department Ret.)
Frank D. O'Connor .... technical advisor (as Frank D. O'Connor District Attorney Queens County New York)
 
Thanks
Sherman Billingsley .... grateful acknowledgment (as Mr. Sherman Billingsley)
 
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Der falsche Mann" - Austria, West Germany
"El hombre equivocado" - Argentina, Mexico (imdb display title)
"Fel man" - Finland (Swedish title) (theatrical title), Sweden
"Le faux coupable" - Belgium (French title), France
"13 eglimata zitoun enoho" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"A tévedés áldozata" - Hungary
"Den forkerte mand" - Denmark
"Fals culpable" - Spain (Catalan title)
"Falso culpable" - Spain
"Feil mann" - Norway (imdb display title)
"Ha-Ish Ha-Lo Nahon/Ha'Neasham" - Israel (Hebrew title)
"Il ladro" - Italy
"Krivo optuzen" - Yugoslavia (Croatian title) (imdb display title)
"Lekeli adam" - Turkey (Turkish title)
"Niet schuldig!" - Belgium (Flemish title)
"Niewlasciwy czlowiek" - Poland (imdb display title)
"O Falso Culpado" - Portugal
"O Homem Errado" - Brazil
"Väärä mies" - Finland
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Runtime:
105 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Italian | Spanish
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
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Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:A (1957) | UK:PG (1988) | Brazil:16 | Canada:14A (video rating) | Sweden:15 | Germany:12 (DVD rating) | Germany:16 (DVD re-rating) | USA:Unrated | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U (re-release) | Peru:14 | USA:Approved (PCA #18117) | West Germany:12 (f)
Filming Locations:
5th Avenue subway station, New York City, New York, USASee more »
Company:
Warner Bros. PicturesSee more »

Did You Know?

Trivia:
The Victor Moore Arcade was torn down in the late 1990s as part of a project to build a new transport hub.See more »
Goofs:
Continuity: After Manny is fingerprinted, he wipes his inked hands off on a paper towel but much of the ink stays on his fingers. He is shown looking at his hands in the jail cell a few shots afterwards and his fingers are completely clean even though he never washed them in between walking to the jail cell and while inside the cell.See more »
Quotes:
[first lines]
Prologue narrator:This is Alfred Hitchcock speaking. In the past, I have given you many kinds of suspense pictures. But this time, I would like you to see a different one. The difference lies in the fact that this is a true story, every word of it. And yet it contains elements that are stranger than all the fiction that has gone into many of the thrillers that I've made before.
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Referenced in Victim of Love (1992) (V)See more »

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33 out of 45 people found the following review useful.
Hitchcock's scariest film, 23 November 2001
Author: Glenn Andreiev (gandreiev@aol.com) from Huntington, NY

THE WRONG MAN has to be the scariest film made by Alfred Hitchcock. The driving force is it's realism. Based on a true story, we follow a struggling Queens musician (Henry Fonda) falsly accused of local robberies. We don't have suave Cary Grant dodging cropdusters or Mount Rushmore. There is no darkly funny Robert Walker making quips about murder. It's all frightfully real- the arrest process, the breakdown of Fonda's family (An incredible performance by Vera Miles as his wife) and the grueling courtroom process. The opening hour of unsmiling detectives checking Fonda's story, and watching Fonda become more defenseless is outright chilling.

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