---
title: 'The Wrong Man (1956)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alfred Hitchcock'
released: '1956-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 101
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-wrong-man-1956'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051207/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Wrong Man (1956)

1956 · 101 min · Drama, Crime · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- **Producer:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock), [Herbert Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-coleman)
- **Screenplay:** [Maxwell Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/maxwell-anderson), [Angus MacPhail](https://cinepixo.com/people/angus-macphail)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bernard Herrmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-herrmann)
- **Director of Photography:** [Robert Burks](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-burks)
- **Editor:** [George Tomasini](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-tomasini)

## Cast

- [Dayton Lummis](https://cinepixo.com/people/dayton-lummis)
- [Harold J. Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-j-stone)
- [Frances Reid](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-reid)
- [Henry Beckman](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-beckman)
- [Peggy Webber](https://cinepixo.com/people/peggy-webber)
- [Tarzan Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/tarzan-cooper)
- [Anthony Quayle](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-quayle)
- [Esther Minciotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/esther-minciotti)
- [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- [Werner Klemperer](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-klemperer)
- [Doreen Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/doreen-lang)
- [Nehemiah Persoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/nehemiah-persoff)
- [Norma Connolly](https://cinepixo.com/people/norma-connolly)
- [Henry Fonda](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-fonda)
- [Vera Miles](https://cinepixo.com/people/vera-miles)

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