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The Wrong Man (1956)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Robert Burks · Cut by George Tomasini · Music by Bernard Herrmann · Ratio 1.66:1 · 101 min
How it was made
- Hitchcock aimed for a documentary feel by filming in many of the real locations from Manny Balestrero's actual story and casting people who had genuinely been part of his life, including the real proprietor of the Stork Club playing himself.
- Most of the film's prison scenes were shot among real convicts inside a New York City prison in Queens.
- Bernard Herrmann's score is one of his most subdued and one of the few he wrote with jazz elements, used specifically to represent Fonda's character's work as a nightclub musician.
- This was Hitchcock's final film under a Warner Bros. contract that had begun with the two Transatlantic Pictures productions Rope and Under Capricorn, his first films shot in Technicolor.
- Hitchcock originally planned his signature cameo as a customer walking into the Stork Club but edited himself out, leaving only a silhouetted introduction before the opening credits.
Behind the scenes
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