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Sorry, Wrong NumberFletcher adapted her celebrated 22-minute, single-character radio play into an almost equally tense screenplay, still retaining many of the eerie sound effects. It has the added advantage of brilliant photography by Polito, which turns the bedroom in which the heroine is confined into a shadowy prison from which there is no escape. Stanwyck, unusually, is the victim, a whining paranoid heiress, suffering from a psychosomatic illness, who believes that her weak husband Lancaster is planning to kill her. In order to get the performance he wanted from Stanwyck, Litvak shot the sequence over 12 days.
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