The Wrong Man [Import]

Author: Henry Fonda

Format: Black & White

Release Date: 07-09-2004

Details: Amazon.caAlfred Hitchcock was fond of telling the story about how his father discouraged his son from even the slightest criminal impulse by having young Alfred locked in a police holding cell for a brief period–a terrifying experience Hitchcock never forgot. Much of the fear from that childhood incident resonates through The Wrong Man, which is unique among Hitchcock’s films in that it is based entirely on a factual case that occurred in New York City in January 1953. As Hitchcock states in a shadowy prologue, authenticity was his primary goal–including the use of actual names and locations from the case–and the film gains considerable power from Hitchcock’s semi-documentary approach (a film noir style that was still in vogue when Hitchcock shot this film in 1957).Henry Fonda is perfectly cast as the financially struggling nigh