Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

stevemaitland One of Barbara Stanwyck's finest performances as invalid Leona Stevenson, who by chance overhears a hitman and his client over a crossed line while trying to contact her husband (Burt Lancaster). A woman is about to be killed somewhere in the vast city outside her stately dwelling and bedridden Leona has a devil of a time phoning around for anyone who will take her seriously.So sets the scene of Anatole Litvak's stylish film noir, based on the highly acclaimed play by Lucille Fletcher. The Stevenson's courtship and now shaky marriage is conveyed via a series of flashbacks involving use of the telephone itself. Gripping stuff.

Leofwine_draca SORRY, WRONG NUMBER is a famous film noir with a great little premise: an invalid wife picks up the phone only to overhear a murder being planned. The story goes from there, but that premise is so memorable that the telephone has become well-used as an object of terror in cinema ever since. Barbara Stanwyck delivers a performance entirely from her bed and is typically intense, while most of the tale plays out in flashback. It's complex, complicated stuff, involving family control, drug smuggling, and business malpractice, and there are well-judged performances from Burt Lancaster as Stanwyck's absent husband and a youthful William Conrad as a slimy killer. Watch out for that shocker of an ending.

bombersflyup Sorry, Wrong Number, despite having Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster was an extremely dull film-noir/mystery.The main character played by Stanwyck was confined to her bed and unlikable, the next main character played by Lancaster wasn't present for most of the film. The story was terrible, there was no suspense and it was all way over the top. The only interesting part of the whole film was the character of Sally Hunt. At the start of the flick Henry is dancing with Sally, Leona rudely interjects, Henry after dancing with Leona turns her down going back to Sally. The next scene Henry is with Leona in her car, working for her dad and then marrying her. ???? It's like there was a scene missing.

Dalbert Pringle This somewhat "better-than-average", 1948, Hollywood Thriller was originally a 30-minute radio play written in 1943 by Lucille Fletcher.So, with that in mind, you can just imagine how much extra padding this film's story required in order to turn it into a 90-minute vehicle for the likes of Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster.Featuring some excellent b&w camera-work, "Sorry, Wrong Number" certainly contains enough suspense and tension-filled moments to allow the viewer to forgive its decidedly convoluted storyline that (once again) gets itself bogged down with way too much "flashback" nonsense.Well, if nothing else - Being a vintage, Hollywood production, "Sorry, Wrong Number" does, at least, rise above your typical "screwball" comedy which seemed to prevail during that particular era in movie-making history.