Alfred Hitchcock. Henry Fonda. Vera Miles. Anthony Quayle. Harold J. Charles Cooper. John Heldabrand. Esther Minciotti. Doreen Lang. But Henry Fonda's performance as the accused and our own current events keep this Wrong Man very pertinent.
Be aware the studios forced a happy coda onto the feature. In its efforts to be comprehensive about the proceedings, educating audiences who might not know the ins and outs of a run-in with the law, the pacing isn't always tight. Director Alfred Hitchcock forsakes his usual shivers-and-giggles formula to produce a piece of glum honest realism closely based on an actual case. A sullen drama from the first scene until the last, anchored by rather sincere performances and conveyed in the sorts of shadows and silence that were the staples of mainstream film noir.
Devoid of any Hitchcockian touches, the movie disappoints only in that it could have been made by any filmmaker experimenting in the faux-documentary style during this period Jules Dassin comes to mind -- otherwise, it's gripping material. Hitchcock's ultimate point evokes cosmic terror: innocence is merely a trick of paperwork, whereas guilt is the human condition.
It's a banner title in Henry Fonda's acting repertoire, and one that works to illustrate Hitchcock's fractured psychoses. Confined spaces highlight Hitchcock's inversion of his usual fugitive-on-the-run films.
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