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Wonderful character development!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

best movie i've ever seen.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Would be interesting to know how Hitchcock viewed religion. Here's a lovely film that shows the the power of prayers--with an obvious Catholic element (rosary, Jesus painting on the wall, etc.) It is also a film that reflects the director's childhood fear of prisons.

As the detectives tell wrongly accused bass player Manny Balestero (Henry Fonda) (picked up for holding up an insurance office at gunpoint) that if he's innocent he has nothing to fear, you realize that once placed in the criminal justice system, he has everything to fear, especially the prospect of losing his wife and family who adore him. Unlike Marnie (Tippie Hedrin) or Marian Crane (Janet Leigh's part in Psycho), who actually did take the money, Fonda is so completely innocent that that aspect is what provides this film with its most compelling force. How could such a decent guy be thrown into such an impersonal and seemingly coldhearted system, as he's arrested, fingerprinted, jailed, transported in a paddy wagon with other felons to his arraignment, and a lot more, all done during a bleak looking New York winter in vintage 1950s black and white, set to a Bernard Hermann score that fits perfectly the mood. Not your typical Hitchcock film, but an excellent role for Henry Fonda.

Great cinematography and a top notch performance by Henry Fonda, but as a movie - unexpectedly weak. Mainly sunk by the "based on a true story" premise, which just was not gripping enough for a feature film. Maybe a slow case of mistaken identity was what passed for suspense in the 50s, but these days we have another word for it - boring. Plus don't you just hate it, when the bad guy gets introduced a whopping three minutes before the final credits roll. There is not twist, no surprise, no cranial satisfaction. Just a lame "deus ex machina" resolution and a "then they lived happily ever after". What a let-down and not up to Hitchcock's usual standard at all.

Surely the identity-parade scenes were flawed by virtue of the fact that the witnesses would look at the men independently, not together. Otherwise one could influence the other on their choice of person.I think that the real robber did have a remarkable similarity to Fonda and it was brilliant the way Hitchcock superimposed the two faces.Vera Miles' gradual descent towards mental breakdown is brilliantly acted as is Fonda's continual look of astonishment at his wrongful arrest and process by the police. Beautifully filmed in black and white, it is a classic piece of film noir and much under-rated. No histrionics, no violence, just a rattling good story of what could happen to an innocent man.