Sorry Wrong Number 1948

     This was first released as a 22-minute radio suspense feature by Lucille Fletcher.  Leona Stevenson is bedridden with heart problems.  She is alone one night and becomes frantic because her husband is usually home by 6PM.  She has staff to help her but they all wanted the same night off.  While trying to call him, the telephone switchboard mixes up her call and she hears two men planning to murder a woman at 11PM that night.  The murder will happen when the train goes by so any sounds will be muffled.  She tries to be reconnected to the number but has no success and the police are too busy to help her.

     This is very good, a lot of twists and turns and background plots.  Agnes Moorehead was originally cast in the 1943 radio program as Leona and she had hoped to star in this film as well.   The radio program was played constantly on the film set to keep Barbara Stanwyck in the right mood.  4* (I really liked this movie) 

88 min, Mystery & Suspense directed by Anatole Litvak with Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Sr., Harold Vermilyear, Leif Erickson, William Conrad.

Note:  Blockbuster 4*, imdb 7.5 out of 10, 86% critic 78% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.