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Director Alfred Hitchcock lets the audience know from the outset that this film is a painfully true story. Musician Christopher Balestrero's life takes a disastrous turn when he visits an insurance office and one of the employees identifies Balestrero as the man who recently robbed the office.
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The Wrong Man (1956)
105 min
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.