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In New York, Leona Stevenson, the invalid wife of Henry J. Stevenson, the VP of a pharmaceutical industry, becomes aware of a murder that would be committed late that night through a "cross-wire", when she overhears two men planning the murder.
Sorry, Wrong Number is a 1948 American thriller and film noir directed by Anatole Litvak, [2] from a screenplay by Lucille Fletcher, based on her 1943 radio play of the same name. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. It follows a bedridden woman who overhears the plot of murder while on the telephone.
Synopsis. Wealthy New York invalid Leona Cotterell Stevenson's lifeline is the telephone. Consequently, when she is left alone after her maid departs and gets a continuous busy signal from her husband Henry's office, she becomes worried and asks a telephone operator to connect her.
Due to a telephone glitch, Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck), a controlling heiress confined to a wheelchair, overhears a conversation about a plan to kill a woman.
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- Barbara Stanwyck
- Anatole Litvak
- Paramount Pictures
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. Anatole Litvak. Lucille Fletcher.
Sorry, Wrong Number, American film noir, released in 1948, that was based on Lucille Fletcher’s hit 1943 radio play of the same name. Barbara Stanwyck played Leona Stevenson, a spoiled, wealthy invalid and hypochondriac who is confined to her bed. While trying to reach her husband (played by Burt.
This highly-effective film noir with elements including illicit underworld drug-trafficking, embezzlement, blackmail, domestic strife, psychic paralysis and contracted murder was noted as having multiple, well-constructed but fragmented and convoluted flashbacks (with two flashbacks-within flashbacks!) and multiple narrators, some of whom were ...
