| Summary |
"Based on a Life Magazine article: "The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestreros" The true story of a nightclub musician (Fonda) is falsely accused of a robbery and his life is fairly destroyed and his wife has a nervous breakdown. Accurate recreation of a real-life case of mild-mannered bass player “Manny” Balestro; probes his anguish at being wrongly accused and showcases his wife (Vera Miles) and her anguish. Director Alfred Hitchcock's only directly non-fictional movie. Filmed on location in New York. Inspired by a Life magazine story about the harrowing ordeal of an “ordinary” man whose life was destroyed after was mistakenly identified as a thief who robbed an insurance office. Balestro was jailed, indicted and even went to trial before it was discovered that he was “the wrong man.” The long ordeal so disturbed his wife that she was institutionalized." |