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
Flashback Film Noir
A woman confined to a bed overhears a murder plot on a crossed telephone line and tries to alert the police. The plot structure is quite convoluted, with most of the story told in flashbacks. In fact there are flashbacks within flashbacks, making it somewhat hard to follow. The audience is supposed to feel sympathy for Stanwyck, but the character is too self-centered and whiny for that to happen. Given her character's propensity for histrionics, the actress manages to keep her performance somewhat controlled; Lancaster is fine as her trophy husband. Litvak creates a good film noir atmosphere, although at times his camera roams aimlessly, becoming a distraction.
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- kenjha
- Nov 1, 2008
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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
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $1,838
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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