While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it.While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it.While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 nominations total
Bill Cartledge
- Page Boy
- (uncredited)
Cliff Clark
- Police Sergeant Duffy
- (uncredited)
Joyce Compton
- Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend
- (uncredited)
Ashley Cowan
- Clam Digger
- (uncredited)
Yola d'Avril
- French Maid
- (uncredited)
Suzanne Dalbert
- Cigarette Girl
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAnatole Litvak: Where Henry is having lunch with Sally, he asks his waiter if he knows who the gentleman is in the dark glasses at the table behind him. It is the director.
- GoofsTwice, Leona turns on a radio, and music begins instantly and strongly. Radios of the film's era contained vacuum tubes that needed some time to warm up.
- Quotes
Henry Stevenson: [to Leona] I want you to do something. I want you to get yourself out of the bed, and get over to the window and scream as loud as you can. Otherwise you only have another three minutes to live.
- Crazy creditsPROLOGUE: "In the tangled networks of a great city, the telephone is the unseen link between a million lives...It is the servant of our common needs-the confidante of our inmost secrets...life and happiness wait upon its ring...and horror...and loneliness...and...death!!!"
- ConnectionsEdited into Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Featured review
One of the finest film noirs
An expanded radio play and subsequent TV drama, this film builds terrific tension around a bedridden heiress and her telephone.
Sympathy builds for this unlikeable woman, Leona, played by Barbara Stanwyck. She is a spoiled heiress used to getting her own way, but as we come to see, very much created by her father (played by Ed Begley) who bows to all her wishes.
Her husband, Henry, played by Burt Lancaster, whom she chases and captures from her best friend, initially goes along with being an employee in her father's corporation but eventually starts chafing at the restraints imposed on him.
The movie just about plays in real time with the addition of many flashbacks, one of which secures the knowledge that there is nothing wrong with Leona, it is all psychosomatic based on her mother's fatal illness.
From the moment Leona accidentally overhears a plotted murder for later on that evening, the viewer is taken on a ride that builds suspense and tension to a terrifying conclusion and the movie's title.
Not to be missed. The cinematography is superb, a lot of play in light and shade. Barbara deserved an Oscar but lost. 8 out of 10.
Sympathy builds for this unlikeable woman, Leona, played by Barbara Stanwyck. She is a spoiled heiress used to getting her own way, but as we come to see, very much created by her father (played by Ed Begley) who bows to all her wishes.
Her husband, Henry, played by Burt Lancaster, whom she chases and captures from her best friend, initially goes along with being an employee in her father's corporation but eventually starts chafing at the restraints imposed on him.
The movie just about plays in real time with the addition of many flashbacks, one of which secures the knowledge that there is nothing wrong with Leona, it is all psychosomatic based on her mother's fatal illness.
From the moment Leona accidentally overhears a plotted murder for later on that evening, the viewer is taken on a ride that builds suspense and tension to a terrifying conclusion and the movie's title.
Not to be missed. The cinematography is superb, a lot of play in light and shade. Barbara deserved an Oscar but lost. 8 out of 10.
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- Dec 29, 2003
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Zalim, pogresan broj
- Filming locations
- Hollywood, California, USA(telephone switchboard at a telephone company office on Gower St.)
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $1,838
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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