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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster Director: Anatole Litvak Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD

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Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea
Directors: Anatole Litvak
Writers: Lucille Fletcher
Producers: Anatole Litvak, Hal B. Wallis
Format: Closed-captioned, Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Release Date: May 28, 2002
Run Time: 89 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (60 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000063URD
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,745 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
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Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster star in Sorry, Wrong Number, an odd telephonic thriller that starts off with a bang. Stanwyck, playing a shrill invalid, is at home alone and phoning around to find her husband. Thanks to a crossed wire, she overhears a murder plot, but she can barely get anyone to pay attention to her, let alone believe her. The rest of the film is played out in telephone conversations and flashbacks as our increasingly frightened heroine tries to find her husband and unravel the murder. Stanwyck, as always, gives a terrific performance, managing to make her character both unlikeable and compelling at the same time. Lancaster, as her kept husband, is handsome, virile, and trapped all at once. The plot, expanded to a film from a tight, dark little radio play, wanders at times but gathers itself back together for a corker of an ending. --Ali Davis

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A BEDRIDDEN HEIRESS PHONES HER HUSBAND AND OVERHEARS TWO MEN PLOTTING HER MURDER.

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5.0 out of 5 stars But the Right Movie, July 10, 2004

By	M. DALTON (Brisbane, Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'll never forget the first time I saw this movie. The quality I was most struck by was it's darkness. I was very young & didn't realise at the time that I was watching one of the best examples in the history of cinema of film noir(nightmare noir even).Darkness, darkness...even the scenes set during the day feel dark. Many of my fellow film lovers have already provided a synopsis so I won't bother you with yet another. Suffice to say this a superbly acted thriller with beautiful elements of melodrama & a knockout climax. I've seen Barbra Stanwyck & Burt Lancaster in SO many films, but this is the one I keep coming back to. Feel the darkness, enjoy the rain, live the nightmare...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stanwyck is Incomparable in this Masterpiece of Isolation., August 31, 2004

By	mirasreviews (McLean, VA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

In "Sorry, Wrong Number", Barbara Stanwyck turns in one of the many memorable performances that made her the Queen of Noir. Leona (Barbara Stanwyck) is the spoiled daughter of a pharmaceutical magnate, now a demanding invalid wife to Henry Stevenson (Burt Lancaster), who must live every moment to please her. One evening she overhears a telephone conversation between two men plotting a murder. Unnerved by the call, alone in her vast apartment, and increasingly worried when her husband doesn't come home from work, Leona uses the only means she has to communicate with the outside world: the telephone. She calls everyone she can think of to find her husband, but what she learns only makes her more anxious as to his fate and her own.

"Sorry, Wrong Number" is based on a popular radio play by Lucille Fletcher, who also wrote a novel based on the play and the screenplay for this film. Leona's confinement to her apartment, where her only means of figuring out what is going on is a telephone, is one of the most effective uses of isolation in cinematic history. Leona isn't a sympathetic character. But her physical and emotional isolation is so palpable that it's unnerving. She can't control what's happening to her. Her insular, dependent lifestyle has left her paranoid. So it's hard to say if anything is happening to her at all. Is paranoia with justification still paranoia? And who were the mysterious men on the phone talking about? Where is her husband? The fact that the audience doesn't know the answers to those questions any more than Leona does makes "Sorry, Wrong Number" a top-notch thriller and a masterpiece of empathy in the service of suspense.

The DVD: The only bonus feature is a theatrical trailer. Subtitles are available in English. Dubbing is available in French.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Murder Mystery Milestone, January 18, 2005

By	William Hare (Seattle, Washington) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster were two of the most dynamic stars in Hollywood history and together they generated fireworks in "Sorry, Wrong Number." Anatole Litvak directed this mystery classic along with "Snake Pit" and both were released in 1948. Both "Sorry, Wrong Number" and "Snake Pit" deal with psychiatric problems, a major winner during the period following Alfred Hitchcock's success in "Spellbound" three years earlier.

Based on a radio drama, the film revolves around Stanwyck overhearing a party line conversation concerning what she soon realizes is a plan to murder her that evening. The bed ridden woman then frantically pieces together all the information she can about the planned event. She becomes overwhelmed when she realizes that Lancaster, who is conveniently away on business, is part of the mix.

A surprise that emerges during all the investigation, which involves convincingly applied flashbacks, is Stanwyck's physical condition. She refers to herself as an invalid and lives the part, but Wendell Corey in the role of a doctor consulted by Lancaster reveals that Stanwyck's problems are psychological rather than physiological as her periodic "attacks" occur whenever her husband challenges the status quo.

The plight into which Stanwyck ultimately descends results from her strong-willed and spoiled manner as a young woman who sees Lancaster and plucks him from the arms of a woman from his own station in life who loves him. Her father, played by Ed Begley, is a Chicago pharmaceutical giant who initially balks over her intention to marry a man from a poor family who has lived his entire life in a small town and is a high school dropout. The unrelenting Stanwyck is used to getting her way and it proves to her ultimate disadvantage with Lancaster.

Some reviewers criticized the film by stating that Lancaster, a he man type, was miscast as someone who is pigeonholed by a rich woman and put in a showcase vice president's job working under her father with few responsibilities other than satisfying her. They missed the point of recognizing that the film's dramatic tension springs from the conflict within Lancaster, who is too strong and independent to function as a "toy boy" for a spoiled rich woman. Eventually he tells her, "I've learned to like this life but on my own terms." Stanwyck is then confronted with a monster of her own creation.

When Lancaster turns against Stanwyck it is with a vengeance as he convinces a chemist to unite with him to make money by siphoning off some of the company's drug supply and selling it to the mob for a huge profit. William Conrad plays the part of the mob boss with stern conviction.

The clock ultimately winds down for Lancaster as well as Stanwyck as they both become enmeshed in complicated mob machinations.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece
The first time I saw this film was in 1992 at school. For years the movie's memories never left me and I made a effort to locate this film in 2005 or so only to a dead end. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tense, still thrilling movie from the past
I loved this movie when it first came out. I had a hard time watching some very tense scenes but that was part of the fun. Read more

Published 8 months ago by M. Khaldi

5.0 out of 5 stars "There's someone on the stairs!"
Leona (Barbara Stanwyck) is a rich invalid who is driving her husband (Burt Lancaster) crazy with her attempts to keep him dependent on her financially. Read more

Published 11 months ago by J. Robbins

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My mother and I watched this movie when I was a pre teen, many years ago now. I knew I had to own it. Read more

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sorry Wrong Number
Movie was good, not what I expected but good, worth watching if you like movies that stay in the same setting. (kind of remind me of the movie "The Phone Booth") .

Published 15 months ago by Alice Gourdine-Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars great film
Disturbing, mesmerizing. It shows that sometimes there are no second chances in life. Great performances. Stanwick and Lancaster are terrific. Read more

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