Hitchcock's movies

Written by:
Maxwell Anderson
Angus MacPhail

Cinematography by:
Robert Burks

Production design by:
William L. Kuehl
Paul Sylbert

Music by:
Bernard Herrmann

Film editing by:
George Tomasini

Produced by:
Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Coleman

Cast

Henry Fonda (Manny Balestrero)

Vera Miles (Rose Balestrero)

Anthony Quayle (Frank O'Connor)

Harold Stone (lieutenant Bowers)

John Heldabrand (Tomasini)

Doreen Lang (Ann James)

Lola D'Annunzio (Olga Conforti)

Robert Essen (Gregory Balestrero)

Dayton Lummis (judge Groat)

Charles Cooper (detective Matthews)

Norma Connolly (Betty Todd)

Laurinda Barrett (Constance Willis)

Nehemiah Persoff (Gene Conforti)

Kippy Campbell (Robert Balestrero)

Richard Robbins (Daniell)

Peggy Webber (Miss Dennerly)

Manny Balestrero is a musician at New York's Stork Club; he is
pennyless and has to work hard. When his wife needs a dental
treatment, Manny goes to the insurance office to borrow some
money.
Employees at the office mistake him for the thief who robbed them
the week before; they call police and Manny is arrested.
Free again and waiting for the trial, Manny starts searching for
someone who could confirm his alibi, but he finds out none.
His wife is shocked by what's happening and she is going crazy;
Manny drives her into a mental-illness clinic.
The trial starts, Balestrero cannot demonstrate his innocence:
he will ce condemned for sure, but police arrests a thief who is
looking like Manny: he is the real guilty, Balestrero was the
wrong man.

The film is based upon a true story of 1953. Atmosphere is suspensefull
and sad. At the end, after the true thief is arrested, Manny cannot be
happy and ,probably he will be no more; we can read in his eyes the
shock for the terrifying experience he lived.
Again an innocent is accused of a crime, but there is no happy end
this time: Balestrero's wife has gone mad and Manny's life will no
more be the same.