The Wrong Man (1956)






In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 3796

Books with substantial mentioning of The Wrong Man

Mark William Padilla
Classical myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong man and Grace Kelly films
Lanham, Maryland, 2019

David Humbert
Violence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, A study in mimesis
East Lansing, 2017

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

David Sterritt
The films of Alfred Hitchcock
Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA, 1993

Tony Thomas
The Complete Films of Henry Fonda
Secaucus, NJ, 1983

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Albert J. LaValley (editor)
Focus on Hitchcock
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1972

Books with an entry on The Wrong Man

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Articles on The Wrong Man

Paula Marantz Cohen, Hitchcock's Revised American Vision. The Wrong Man and Vertigo, in: Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington (eds.), Hitchcock's America, New York; Oxford, 1999