"Sorry, wrong number" [WorldCat Entities]

"Raccrochez, c'est une erreur"@en

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"A young, rich, bedridden woman dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and friend of her father. With time running out, she pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husand who wants her murdered."@en
"An invalid heiress alone in her New York apartment, because of crossed lines, overhears a phone conversation between two men planning to kill a woman. Slowly she comes to realise that she is the intended victim. The screenplay was based on a radio play, a 22 minute monologue, which is opened out in the film by the use of flashbacks reconstructing the relationship between the woman and her husband. The sense of entrapment central to film noir is created by the camera circling the increasingly distraught woman enclosed by shadows and convinced of her own helplessness."@en
"When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an 89-minute feature film, she opted on the Citizen Kane approach, filling the plotline to the brim with revelatory flashbacks. Barbara Stanwyck stars as bedridden hypochondriac Leona Stevenson, who while trying to make a call from her bedroom telephone gets her wires crossed and inadvertently overhears two men plotting a murder. Anxiously, Leona wades through telephone-company bureaucracy to trace the call, never catching on ? until it's too late ? that the murder being planned is hers. A series of flashbacks details the disintegrating marriage between the wealthy Leona and her weakling husband Henry (Burt Lancaster), and Henry's subsequent disastrous get-rich-quick schemes involving chemist Waldo Evans (Harold Vermilyea) and a surly gangster (William Conrad). It would have been a near-sacrilege to alter the radio play's ironic ending, which fortunately remains intact on film. Sorry Wrong Number was first heard on radio's Suspense series in 1943, with Agnes Moorehead as the harried Mrs. Stevenson (a role she'd repeat several times on radio and on stage). Though disappointed that she wasn't chosen to star in the film version, Moorehead took some satisfaction in the fact that a recording of the original radio program was played constantly on the set to help keep Barbara Stanwyck "in the mood"."@en
"Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered."@en
"Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered."
"A young, rich, bedridden woman dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. Evidence leads her to suspect that her husband is planning to murder her."@en