The Wrong Man (1956)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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Nick Dunne borrows some from Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man and Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo, never coming close to either actor’s performance.
It strip-mines at least three Hitchcock classics - "North by Northwest," "The Wrong Man," and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" - then commits unlawful assault on Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" just for the heck of it.
Herrmann is best known for his work for Orson Welles (Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons), Alfred Hitchcock (eight films, including The Wrong Man, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho), Francois Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451), and Brian De Palma (Sisters and Obsession).
He arouses sympathy for the thoroughly unlikable Nicholas, turning him into one of the hapless protagonists of "North by Northwest," "The Wrong Man" or "Saboteur."
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Alfred Hitchcock alone having delivered three classics of the genre ("The 39 Steps," "North by Northwest," "The Wrong Man")…