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Biography. In 1951, Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero was working as a musician at the Stork Club, a nightclub in New York City, when he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and charged with the armed robbery of an insurance office. The pressure of the arrest caused Manny's wife, Rose Balestrero, to have a breakdown and she ...
Henry Fonda plays Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, a double-bass player at the Stork Club, in “The Wrong Man’’ (1956), which has just been released on Blu-ray by Warner Archive. This video is...
The Wrong Man is a 1956 American docudrama film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson [2] [3] and in the magazine article "A Case of ...
- $1.2 million
- Bernard Herrmann
- Alfred Hitchcock
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Jan 13, 2023 · Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero, played in the film by Henry Fonda, was a real guy. Ordinary — as Hitchcock heroes tend to be. Struggling musician, with a wife and family. On January...
The Wrong Man: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone. In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1957-01-26
14th - New York musician Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero is arrested and charged with a robbery he didn't commit. His story will later be told in the Hitchcock film The Wrong Man. June. Herbert Brean's "A Case of Identity", detailing the arrest and subsequent release of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, is published in the June edition of LIFE ...
Feb 17, 2016 · The movie tells the story of Christopher Balestrero, nicknamed “Manny,” a member of the house band at New York’s swanky Stork Club in the early ‘50s, who found himself on the receiving end of a very bad case of mistaken identity, enduring arrest and trial for a series of small-time robberies that he did not commit.
