The Wrong Man
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Screenplay by | Maxwell Anderson Angus MacPhail |
| Based on | The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson |
| Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Starring | Henry Fonda Vera Miles |
| Cinematography | Robert Burks |
| Edited by | George Tomasini |
| Music by | Bernard Herrmann |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.2 million |
The Wrong Man is a 1956 American docudrama film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson and in the magazine article "A Case of Identity", which was published in Life magazine in June 1953 by Herbert Brean.
It is recognized as the only Hitchcock film based on a true story and whose plot closely follows the real-life events.
The Wrong Man had a notable effect on two significant directors: it prompted Jean-Luc Godard's longest piece of written criticism in his years as a critic, and it has been cited as an influence on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.