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The Wrong Man (1956)

This film is the only project of Hitchcock’s that he ever spoke in.  He introduces the film and tells us that the film that we are about to see it a true story and that sometimes fact can be more bizarre than fiction.  Well, the following story certainly proves to be true.

The film is about a man who is wrongly accused of a string of robberies. The pressures of his trial begin to weigh heavy on his family, and his wife starts to develop signs of a breakdown.  Well, just as things are starting to look up for the wrongly jailed man, the trial takes an apparent turn for the worse.  This proves to be too much for his wife to bear and she is checked in to an institution.

The irony comes into play when the man is finally set free, but his wife remains in her own mental prison. The film seems to be almost a retelling of the biblical story of Job, and is just as dark and downbeat.  There isn’t a drop of the subtle comedy that Hitchcock usually blended into his dramas.

The pace is slow and deliberate, and can be a little dry at times. But the pain of the man is brilliantly played by Henry Fonda and the frustration that he feels comes right off the screen. This is the only Hitchcock film to be strictly based from an actually event.

(Directed by Hitchcock)

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