{"id":34386,"date":"2023-11-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34386"},"modified":"2023-11-03T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:11:15","slug":"sorry-wrong-number-1948-starring-barbara-stanwyck-burt-lancaster-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34386","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sorry, Wrong Number&#8221; (1948) starring Barbara Stanwyck &#038; Burt Lancaster \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z110723zview_sorrywrongnumber.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"755\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sorry, Wrong Number <\/strong><\/em>(1948)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Anatole Litvak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay by: <strong>Lucille Fletcher <\/strong>based on <em>Sorry, Wrong Number<\/em> by<strong> Lucille Fletcher<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards<\/strong><strong>, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson, Jimmy Hunt<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>William Conrad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The prize-winning radio suspense drama that thrilled 40,000,000 people &#8230; now electrifies the screen!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leona Stevenson (Stanwyck) is invalid confined to her bed.\u00a0 While making a phone call, the lines are crossed and she hears two men discussing a murder that will happen in the next few hours.\u00a0 Leona frantically contacts the police.\u00a0 They say there&#8217;s nothing they can do with the information provided.\u00a0 Leona then contacts the telephone company.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t have the ability to figure out where the call originated.\u00a0 As the minutes tick by, Leona gets more worried that someone is going to be killed.\u00a0 Soon Leona will realize that she is the intended victim!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barbara Stanwyck was nominated for B<em>est Actress in a Leading Role<\/em> at the 1949 Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s interesting that Stanwyck plays an unlikable character and we&#8217;re rooting for Lancaster, who plays her husband.\u00a0 Slowly we learn, he&#8217;s not as nice a guy as we thought, but we understand his motives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em> Sorry, Wrong Number\u00a0<\/em>contains one of the best ending scenes in movies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z110723zview_sorrywrongnumber2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Director: Anatole Litvak Screenplay by: Lucille Fletcher based on Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher Starring:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34387,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386\/revisions\/34387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}