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The Wrong Man
1956
· Movie
· 105 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Every rating
62–93
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93. Critics average 88, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A steady bass player at a nightclub is mistakenly identified by several witnesses as the man who held up their stores. He is arrested and put on trial for a series of robberies he did not commit. The legal system, reliant on eyewitness testimony, methodically closes in around him, threatening to destroy his life and family.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writers
- Angus MacPhail, Maxwell Anderson
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 22 December 1956
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Italian, Spanish
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $2.0M
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Awards
1 win & 1 nomination
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