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The Wrong Man (1956)

★ 7.1 · 620 ratings on TMDB

HITCHCOCK'S FIRST REAL-LIFE THRILLER!

The Wrong Man poster★ 7.1

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
CastAnthony Quayle, Charles Cooper, Doreen Lang, Esther Minciotti, Harold J. Stone, Henry Fonda
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

The Wrong Man keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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