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The Wrong Man (1956) -- A. Hitchcock
Is this Hitchcock's
first horror film? Henry Fonda is accused of a crime he didn't commit and,
following cinematic trends of the time, goes through all the dignity-reducing
processes of our legal system in neorealist fashion. Well, not exactly, because
Hitchcock can't resist some expressionistic touches. Although you can sense
Hitch's real fear of the police, it is hard to know whether he sees the power
of Fonda's belief in God as literally as he seems to. Pretty grim throughout,
especially as we see the effects on Fonda's family (Vera Miles, particularly).
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