Alfred Hitchcok - Il Ladro (1956) [DVD9 PAL]





Original title The Wrong Man

Original language English, Italian, Spanish

Country of manufacture United States of America

Year 1956

Duration 105 min

Technical data B / N

ratio: 1.85: 1

Detective genre

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Subject Maxwell Anderson



Interpreters and characters



   Henry Fonda: Christopher Emmanuel Manny Balestrero

   Vera Miles: Rose Balestrero, wife of Manny

   Anthony Quayle: O'Connor attorney

   Harold J. Stone: Police Lieutenant Bowers

   Nehemiah Persoff: Eugene Gene Conforti, Manny's brother-in-law

   Lola D'Annunzio: Olga Balestrero Conforti, sister of Manny

   Ester Minciotti: Manny's mother

   Charles Cooper: Detective Matthews

   Dayton Lummis: judge

   Richard Robbins Daniel, the real thief

   Alfred Hitchcock: himself





Language: English French Italian

Subtitles: English French Italian Dutch Arabic Bulgarian

Romanian Portuguese Spanish German





The Wrong Man is a 1956 film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

The subject was taken from a real event that the director read on June 29, 1953 in Life Magazine told by the journalist Herbert Brean with the title A Case of Identity.



On January 14, 1953 Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, a double bass musician from the Stork Club of New York, was stopped in front of his house and charged with carrying out some armed robberies in the surrounding area. Despite his proclamation of innocence he is arrested and tried but in the course of events the real culprit tries another blow and is captured: his capture exonerates the innocent musician.