History Film / SorryWrongNumber

* AdaptationExpansion: Screenwriter Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it eight different times on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of Leona's increasingly frantic telephone calls, and using a series of {{flashback}}s to detail the set of circumstances that led up to the murder being planned.

* AdaptationExpansion: Screenwriter Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it eight different times on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of Leona's increasingly frantic telephone calls, and using a series of {{flashback}}s to detail the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

* AdaptationExpansion: Screenwriter Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it eight different times on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of Leona's increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a {{flashback}}s detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

* AdaptationExpansion: Screenwriter Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it eight different times on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of the increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a {{flashback}}s detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

* AdaptationExpansion: Screenwriter Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it '''eight times''' on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of the increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a {{flashback}}s detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

* AdaptationExpansion: Writer Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute, one-woman radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it '''eight times''' on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of the increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a {{flashback}}s detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

* AdaptationExpansion: Screenwriter Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute, one-woman radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it '''eight times''' on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of the increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a {{flashback}}s detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

* AdaptationExpansion: Writer Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute, one-woman radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it '''eight times''' on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of the increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a {{flashback}}s detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Leona and Henry's marriage is a sham. Highlighted with a shot of their ''separate beds in separate rooms'' living situation.

* AdaptationExpansion: Writer Lucille Fletcher adapted her own 22-minute, one-woman radio play of the same name, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it '''eight times''' on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of the increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a flashbacks detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

''Sorry, Wrong Number'' (1948) is a Main/FilmNoir thriller starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and Creator/BurtLancaster.

* AdaptationExpansion: The film is based on 22-minute, one-woman radio play of the same name by Lucille Fletcher, made famous as a tour de force vehicle for Creator/AgnesMoorehead (who performed it '''eight times''' on ''Suspense'' between 1943 and 1960). The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of the increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a flashbacks detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

Leona Stevenson (Stanwyck) is an hypochondriac heiress who is bedridden. While on the phone trying to find out where her husband Henry (Lancaster) is on a hot New York night, she hears a conversation about a planned murder.

Panicking, Leona starts calling friends and family to trace his steps, only to find out that Henry may be involved with the murder.

* AdaptationExpansion: The film is based on 22 minute radio play. The film expands the plot by allowing the audience to be privy to the other side of the increasingly frantic telephone calls, and with a series a flashbacks detailing the set of circumstances that lead up to the murder being planned.

''Sorry, Wrong Number'' (1948) is a Main/FilmNoir starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and Creator/BurtLancaster.

* PhoneBooth: Several of the phone calls to Leona come from phone booths: notably Sally from a booth in the drug store, Dr. Alexander in from a booth in the nightclub, and Henry from a booth at the train station.

[[caption-width-right:350: ''My husband did what?!'']]

!!Tropes:

* AwfulWeddedLife: Leona and Henry’s marriage is a sham. Highlighted with a shot of their ''separate beds in separate rooms'' living situation.
* BottleEpisode: Except for the flashbacks, the film takes place in Leona’s apartment.

** FlashbackWithinAFlashback: Dr. Alexander's flashback about his conversation with Henry about Leona's heart condition segues into a flashback of Henry discussing his marriage.
* DownerEnding: Leona is murdered, and Henry is arrested for theft.
* ExactEavesdropping: Leona overhears on the phone two men talking about a planned murder, but they can't hear her.
* HenpeckedHusband: Henry is bursting at the seams because he feels like he has no control over his life. He wants to make his own living but Leona and her father won't let him. So, he turns to reckless crime and eventually [[spoiler:plans Leona's murder]].

* ObfuscatingDisability: The only reason Henry has stayed so long with Leona (even though he’s clearly unhappy) is her heart condition. Once he finds out that her condition has only been in her head, it’s the catalyst to him planning her murder.

* UnexplainedAccent: Ann Richards' character Sally Hunt-Lord is supposedly from a working class town in Illinois, but speaks with a 'Received Pronunciation' English actress. As Richards was born in Australia to an American father and a New Zealander mother, it's not her native accent either.

* HenpeckedHusband: Henry is bursting at the seams because he feels like he has no control over his life. He wants to make his own living but Leona and her father won't let him. So, he turns to reckless crime and eventually plans Leona's murder.

* ThePerfectCrime: Henry concocts a plan to steal from Leona’s father, but it fails miserably. It seems, however, that his plan to murder Leona, came off without a hitch.
* PlotTwist: It was Henry who planned Leona’s murder.

* HenpeckedHusband: Henry is bursting at the seems because he feels like he has no control over his life. He wants to make his own living but Leona and her father won't let him. So, he turns to reckless crime and eventually plans Leona's murder.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Henry is being arrested right after

''Sorry Wrong Number'' (1948) is a Main/FilmNoir starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and Creator/BurtLancaster.

* TheFilmofThePlay: Radio play to be specific.

Leona Stevenson (Stanwyck) is an invalid heiress who spends most of her time in her apartment. While on the phone, waiting for her husband to appear,she hears a conversation about a planned murder.

Panicking, Leona starts calling friends and family to find out that her husband, Henry (Lancaster, may be involved with the murder.

* AssholeVictim: Leona is a spoiled rich woman who gets whatever she wants and manipulates her heart condition to keep Henry in her life.