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Sorry, Wrong Number

Tangled Wires... Whispering of Murder! Tangled Lives... Fighting to Escape!

6.8(220)19481h 29m3

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

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Released
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Language
English
  • husband wife relationship
  • telephone
  • family business
  • flashback
  • film noir
  • female protagonist
  • fear
  • chemist
  • heiress
  • invalid
  • criminal investigation
  • home alone

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNew York City, New York1 Sept 1948
    • TheatricalNR24 Sept 1948
    • PhysicalDVD28 May 2002
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical4 Feb 1949
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical121 Jan 1951
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1529 Jul 1949
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU30 Sept 1949
    • TVTPCiné+ Classic17 Oct 2026

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Sorry, Wrong Number was released on 24 September 1948.

Audience reviews

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  • S

    SWITCH.

    5/27/2020

    7/10

    'Sorry, Wrong Number' isn't a film that leaves a strong lasting impression, but its narrative and visual inventiveness and a thoroughly engaging plot make it an enjoyable journey into 40s film noir. If anything, you leave it with a great appreciation for Lucille Fletcher's devilishly simple premise, one that certainly isn't dulled by the transition from radio to cinema. - Daniel Lammin Read Daniel's full article.…

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    CinemaSerf

    10/9/2026

    7/10

    "Leona" (Barbara Stanwyck) is a wealthy bedridden woman who uses her telephone as a lifeline with an outside world which she has increasingly decided to shun. It's when making a call one evening that she overhears two men plotting a murder. Terrified, she tries to reach her husband "Henry" (Burt Lancaster) but he's nowhere to be found. She tries the police but what can she tell them? That is when she begins to try an…

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