--- title: 'Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)' type: 'film' director: 'Jean Negulesco' released: '1952-01-01' runtime_minutes: 95 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/phone-call-from-a-stranger-1952' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045029/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) 1952 · 95 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis Phone Call from a Stranger is a 1952 American film noir drama directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, based on the 1950 novelette of the same name by I. A. R. Wylie. The film centers on the survivor of an aircraft crash who contacts the relatives of three of the victims he came to know on board the flight. The story employs flashbacks to relive the three characters' pasts. ## Credits - **Director:** [Jean Negulesco](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-negulesco) - **Screenplay:** [Nunnally Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nunnally-johnson) - **Producer:** [Nunnally Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nunnally-johnson) - **Original Music Composer:** [Franz Waxman](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-waxman) - **Director of Photography:** [Milton Krasner](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-krasner) - **Editor:** [Hugh S. Fowler](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-s-fowler) ## Cast - [Beatrice Straight](https://cinepixo.com/people/beatrice-straight) - [Shelley Winters](https://cinepixo.com/people/shelley-winters) - [Warren Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/warren-stevens) - [Evelyn Varden](https://cinepixo.com/people/evelyn-varden) - [Keenan Wynn](https://cinepixo.com/people/keenan-wynn) - [Nestor Paiva](https://cinepixo.com/people/nestor-paiva) - [Gary Merrill](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-merrill) - [Helen Westcott](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-westcott) - [Craig Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/craig-stevens) - [Bette Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/bette-davis) - [Michael Rennie](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-rennie) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/phone-call-from-a-stranger-1952 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1304513); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.