The Wrong Man is a fearsome, foreboding film, filled with fate, falsehoods, and frenzied frustration. Hitchcock’s haunting handiwork hurls the hapless hero—Henry Fonda—into a harrowing hell of hopelessness. Framed for foul deeds he never forged, he faces the fierce, frigid fingers of flawed justice. Stark shadows stretch across somber scenes, suffocating suspense seeps into every second, and silent suffering swells beneath the slow, sorrowful storytelling. Unlike Hitchcock’s high-speed, heart-stopping spectacles, this measured, menacing masterpiece magnifies misery, making it a mournful meditation on mistaken malice, misfortune, and man’s merciless mortality.
In all, its pretty okay!
