Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 196: Wed Jul 17

Sorry, Wrong Number (Litvak, 1946): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm


Time Out review:
Barbara Stanwyck in one of her most famous roles, as an invalid who overhears a telephone conversation between conspiring murderers, and slowly realises that she is their intended victim. Based on Lucille Fletcher's celebrated 22-minute radio play, the film is none the less well sustained. Anatole Litvak's camera paces the confines of Stanwyck's lacy bedroom like an accused man in his cell; and although she is for the most part restricted to acting from the head up, Stanwyck's metamorphosis from indolence to hysteria is brilliantly executed.
Tom Charity

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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