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Phone Call from a Stranger is a 1952 American film noir drama film directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, based on the 1950 novelette of the same name by I. A. R. Wylie. [2] The film centers on the survivor of an aircraft crash who contacts the relatives of three of the victims he came to know on board of the flight.
A 1952 drama film-noir about a lawyer who befriends three passengers on a delayed flight and helps their families after a crash. The film features Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Shelley Winters and Michael Rennie in a story of love, guilt and betrayal.
- (3K)
- Drama, Film-Noir
- Jean Negulesco
- 1952-02-15
In 1950, I.A.R. Wylie wrote her novelette Phone Call from a Stranger, which was originally published in McCall's. 20th Century-Fox obtained the rights to Wylie's story, bringing in one of their top writers, Nunnally Johnson, to adapt the screenplay as well as produce Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), with Jean Negulesco hired on to direct.
- Jean Negulesco, Dick Mayberry
- Shelley Winters
Phone Call From a Stranger. After discovering that his wife has been unfaithful, attorney David Trask (Gary Merrill) decides to fly to Los Angeles. He becomes friendly with three other passengers ...
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- Jean Negulesco
- Drama
- Gary Merrill
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A lawyer who leaves his wife befriends three fellow passengers on a delayed flight and helps their families after a crash. The film explores themes of guilt, forgiveness, and redemption in the lives of the characters.
