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  Bookreporter.com - THE WRONG MAN by John Katzenbach
There are a number of factors that contribute to making THE WRONG MAN Katzenbach's most readable and accessible work to date, perfect in nearly every way.
The beauty of THE WRONG MAN, however, is not the implementation of their plan, or even how well or badly it works.
THE WRONG MAN may be fiction, but it is all too real.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0345464834.asp   (597 words)

  
 The Wrong Man: triple j film reviews
The Wrong Man (aka Lucky Number Slevin) is a surprisingly enjoyable crime thriller from an original script by a young and very energetic writer Jason Smilovic, and directed by Scottish filmmaker Paul McGuigan, best-known for stylised UK comedies The Acid House (1998) and Gangster No. 1 (2000).
Sure to be accused of being too "tricky", The Wrong Man is also sure to annoy some with its rapid fire, smart-mouth dialogue and circular story-telling.
The Wrong Man may not set the world of film on fire but it is fun.
www.abc.net.au /triplej/review/film/s1680588.htm   (445 words)

  
  The Wrong Man: triple j film reviews
The Wrong Man (aka Lucky Number Slevin) is a surprisingly enjoyable crime thriller from an original script by a young and very energetic writer Jason Smilovic, and directed by Scottish filmmaker Paul McGuigan, best-known for stylised UK comedies The Acid House (1998) and Gangster No. 1 (2000).
Sure to be accused of being too "tricky", The Wrong Man is also sure to annoy some with its rapid fire, smart-mouth dialogue and circular story-telling.
The Wrong Man may not set the world of film on fire but it is fun.
www.abc.com.au /triplej/review/film/s1680588.htm   (428 words)

  
  DVD Review - The Wrong Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
An exception among the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, his 1956 movie "The Wrong Man" for the first time actually used real events to tell a story, and like Hitchcock himself proclaims in the opening of the movie, these events seem stranger than anything fictional he had done before… or after for that matter.
In their line-up of Hitchcock releases, Warner Home Video has now released "The Wrong Man" on DVD for the first time and I was only too eager to give the disc a check-up.
Trying to deal with all the problems and issues, Manny now also has to let go of his wife and place her in a sanitarium, forced to face the ordeal of his upcoming trial on his own, with only his lawyer by his side.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_wrong_man.shtml   (813 words)

  
 The Wrong Man - DVD Movie Central
The Wrong Man is a tale of a musician, Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero (compassionately portrayed by Henry Fonda), wrongly accused of a series of neighborhood robberies.
The Wrong Man is shown in a matted format that preserves the original widescreen aspect ratio.
The Wrong Man nevertheless finds the master director on familiar grounds, championing an average man in his struggles to prove his innocence of a crime.
www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/wrong_man.htm   (1337 words)

  
 MovieFreak.com - "The Wrong Man" DVD Review
The Wrong Man is one of Hitchcock’s most serious pictures, so serious, in fact, that Hitchcock does not even make his usual cameo, though he does introduce the film (in silhouette) before the opening credits start.
The Wrong Man is presented in the original 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
The Wrong Man is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most personal films, echoing the very fear that dominated his life.
www.moviefreak.com /dvd/uvw/wrongman.htm   (791 words)

  
 The Wrong Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wrong Man is a 1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock which stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles.
The film is based on a true story of an innocent man charged for a crime he didn't commit, even though witnessess swear he's guilty.
Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them twice before and the police are called.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wrong_Man   (254 words)

  
 The wrong man
She admitted that she didn’t get a good look at the man. There was a street light near the window, and her headlights were pointed at him, but all she could make out was a fl man with muscular shoulders and a beard.
She described the man to be about six-feet-tall with wild hair and unkempt beard with pores like "open holes" all over his face.
Lowe told the jury that after shooing away the man with the television, her family awakened her in a panic and said they were sure the man that just left was the same man in the sketch Lowe had made.
www.oranous.com /innocence/FrankLeeSmith/wrongman.htm   (8008 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man is Alfred Hitchcock at the end of a series of ever-expanding directorial experiments, just before moving to to his most ambitious film, Vertigo.
The Wrong Man has to change gears quickly to get into the madness theme, and for some people the switch is far too abrupt.
Warner's DVD of The Wrong Man presents this widescreen film in an enhanced transfer that is good but not exceptional, with some shots grainy and others not as cleanly encoded as they might be.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1353wron.html   (1707 words)

  
 Pasco: Wrong man identified in armed robberies
A man was arrested after being tackled by four stock clerks at the Kash n' Karry on Little Road.
While speaking to deputies, the man admitted using a shotgun to rob the Walgreens on Majestic Boulevard in Hudson earlier Sunday morning.
On Monday, the man's mug shot appeared in the Pasco Times along with an account of the crimes of which he is accused.
www.sptimes.com /2004/08/03/Pasco/Wrong_man_identified_.shtml   (486 words)

  
 TheScene : The Wrong Man
This film was released in Britain under the much better (by comparison) title of Lucky Number Slevin, which, while infinitely better than the generic Wrong Man, is perhaps a little too revealing to certain areas of the complicated and convoluted plot to be broadcast so early on.
The slightly fragmented, intentionally referential and ambiguous narrative hints at a sense of intelligence that you keep hoping it can maintain, although anyone with half an awareness of the genre and style of Wrong Man is likely to see everything coming from at least a mile away.
As befitting a movie of this special form of caliber, Wrong Man\'s characters aren\'t so much characters as paper thin cut-outs; everyone, from the unassumingly psychotic \"good-guy\" mob-bosses, to the raft of ironic and humorous peripheral henchmen, to more-than-he-seems Slevin himself, is an archetype we\'ve seen a hundred times before.
www.thescene.com.au /experience/thescreen/the_wrong_man2006_11_23_394.html   (825 words)

  
 Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reagan's clear voice, easy-going manner, and athletic physique made him popular with audiences; the majority of his screen roles were as the leading man in B movies.
After that speech, many at the convention said they felt like "they had voted for the wrong man." Reagan's charisma and popularity with the Republican base was fully established by his 1976 campaign, the strongest intra-party challenge to a sitting president since 1912, even counting Teddy Kennedy's challenge to Carter four years later.
After the 1976 presidential election had ended, and as the Electoral College votes were being cast, Reagan unexpectedly received one electoral vote for President from a Republican "faithless elector" (Mike Padden, a lawyer from Spokane, Washington) who had been pledged to vote for Gerald Ford.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronald_Reagan   (9439 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: The Wrong Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
If, along with I Confess (1953), 1956's The Wrong Man ranks as one of Alfred Hitchcock's weaker films during the 1950s, then like its predecessor it also must be considered one of the director's most personal, both for its strict concern for the most trenchant of Hitchcockian themes and its stark Catholic imagery.
Despite their assurances to the contrary, it's clear that the cops think they've picked up their man, and before long Manny is arraigned and imprisoned — it's only because of generous relatives that he manages to post $7,500 bail.
But even if The Wrong Man is to be regarded as an important bridge from the Hitchcock champagne of John Michael Hayes to the darker worlds of the Bates Motel and Bodega Bay, it's best appreciated by Hitchcock completists.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/w/wrongman.q.shtml   (542 words)

  
 The Wrong Man News
BEIRUT: In Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 classic "The Wrong Man," Henry Fonda plays Manny, a clean-cut journeyman musician who falls victim to a case of mistaken identity that lands him in jail for a series of...
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" was a film he enjoyed doing with a narrative genre he had never done before.
Although not as renowned as other works from Alfred Hitchcock's distinguished career, The Wrong Man does bear the distinction of being The Master of Suspense's first film to be inspired by a real incident.
www.topix.net /movies/the-wrong-man   (538 words)

  
 HWT » Encyclopedia » Definition » Harald Kleindeinst (Powered by Grots)
Born in 2460, Harald Kleindeinst was a captain of the Altdorf Dock Watch, stationed in Luitpoldstrasse, badge number 89, until 2503.
In that year he had the misfortune to kill the wrong man. Harald saved a young girl from a naked, cleaver-wielding maniac, who turned out to be the son of Grand Prince Hals von Tasseninck, Elector of Ostland.
This appointment, made by the newly-formed Atrocities Commission, came in the wake of his success in tracking down the Beast, and he replaced Erich Viereck, whose previous investigation had seen the execution of an innocent man in place of the Warhawk each time a killing was committed.
www.hiveworldterra.co.uk /Encyclopedia/definition_HaraldKleindeinst.html   (530 words)

  
 BBC interviews wrong man on TV : www, bbc, goma : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
A man who turned up for a job interview for the post of support cleanser at BBC News 24 office found himself being interviewed live on air after a mix-up at reception.
The BBC accepts that the man they interviewed thinking he was the editor of a technology website was actually the wrong guy.
However, it later turned out that Goma thought the exercise was part of his interview and did not realise that he would be broadcast live on air.
www.ibnlive.com /news/bbc-interviews-wrong-man-on-live-tv/10652-13.html   (330 words)

  
 The Wrong Man (1956)
Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are called.
The Wrong Man displays a surprising lack of cynicism for a Hitchcock movie, and I don’t intend that as a compliment.
The Wrong Man appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
www.dvdmg.com /wrongman.shtml   (1361 words)

  
 Marriage Counseling: I married the wrong man
This was the man who I loved all throughout high school and college, the man who made me laugh and whom I greatly admired.
The truth was that even at 20, you knew deep down that this man had the potential to hurt and disappoint you.
When a man has worked hard to become, as you put it "financially independent" and has "friends all around the world because of his travels," his wife and children have had to make quite a few sacrifices.
www.lightyourfire.com /i-married-the-wrong-man.htm   (1750 words)

  
 Police kill wrong man in bed
Lobato, a career criminal and formerly homeless man whom neighbors said was disabled, was not involved in the domestic dispute.
Frank Lobato, 63, a Denver man, was shot in his bed when a police officer apparently mistook a soda can for a weapon.
The city of Denver paid a $400,000 settlement to the family of Mena, who shot at police officers before he was killed and was discovered to have killed a man in Mexico.
www.infowars.com /print/ps/wrong_man.htm   (1142 words)

  
 The Wrong Man
You have the wrong man, Fishburne remembers saying, in the patrol car, then again at the police substation where he was booked May 5, 2005.
The thin court files and interviews with various officials confirm Fishburne's account of how an innocent man was swept through the justice system.
Tucker was described as an armed drug dealer who stood 5 feet 10 and weighed 190 pounds; the man in custody was two inches shorter and at least 50 pounds lighter.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/24/AR2006062401082.html   (630 words)

  
 Screen Archives
The Wrong Man (1956) was an unusual effort for the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
The Wrong Man was the third collaboration between Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, one of the most fruitful and famous director/composer partnerships in the history of cinema.
The relationship was soon to produce their most famous works together -- Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho -- but for The Wrong Man Herrmann produced a score as low key and subtle as Hitchcock's film, emphasizing the claustrophobia and terror of Balestrero's Kafkaesque experience.
www.screenarchives.com /fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=364   (307 words)

  
 The wrong man for the UN - SciDev.Net
The wrong man for the UN - SciDev.Net
The wrong man for the UN John Bolton
It would be wrong to dismiss the dispute between Bolton and his critics as a purely US affair.
www.scidev.net /content/editorials/eng/the-wrong-man-for-the-un.cfm   (1621 words)

  
 Regret the Error: Major Errors
Nearly two weeks after the Mirror misidentified a man as one of those charged in the recent terror arrests in London, several other UK media outlets will be apologizing for doing the same thing to a different person.
A Quebec man recently threatened to sue the Montreal Gazette after the paper's error made him think he'd won a huge lottery jackpot when he hadn't.
A Montreal man has told the media that he thought he held the winning 6/49 ticket of the Saturday, Aug. 12, draw for a few hours based on the numbers published in the Aug. 13 edition of The Gazette.
www.regrettheerror.com /major_errors/index.html   (11899 words)

  
 Author Peter Blauner
I remember "The Bird Man" of 77th Street standing in front of the halfway house near my school, squawking at my teachers on their lunch break.
Because of the way that book and its follow-up Man of the Hour were marketed, some people may have gotten the impression that I'm trying to write relentless straight-ahead page-turners.
It's about a detective and the young man he put away for twenty years, and the effect it has on both of their lives when facts begin to emerge indicating the wrong man was convicted.
www.peterblauner.com /biography.php   (1766 words)

  
 Wrong man for Kerry - The Boston Globe
The general election campaign is underway, and John F. Kerry has figured out how to blunt Republican charges that he cannot be trusted, that he will say or do anything to win.
They have been toasting Sasso as a political genius for so long that they might have overlooked how his idea of good, clean fun will play in the heartland, where so many of those battleground states are to be found.
His is exactly the wrong voice to be whispering in Kerry's ear now that America is back from the beach and paying attention to presidential politics.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/09/05/wrong_man_for_kerry   (734 words)

  
 The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man is the dramatic story of Michael Mello's twenty-year-long fight to save Spaziano from being executed for crimes he didn't commit.
In a gripping personal account Mello, a well-known author, activist, and legal commentator, describes the in and outs of this case and the extremes to which he was driven by it.
More than an account of a single, notorious death penalty case, The Wrong Man is an indictment of capital punishment and the criminal justice system-a fascinating first-person narrative about death penalty legal work and a detailed account of how the justice system often fails to deliver justice.
www.upress.umn.edu /Books/M/mello_wrong.html   (1033 words)

  
 Wrong Man , The - Music from the Movies
In ‘The Cell I’, the composer introduces two harps but even this usually consoling instrument is used to unsettling effect, to depict the arrested man’s growing confusion and despair.
The Wrong Man is something of a landmark in Herrmann’s evolution towards the proto-minimalism that he would employ much of the time for the remainder of his career.
It is perhaps significant that he adopted it at this time, the mid 1950’s, when his operatic ambitions appeared thwarted, his personal life had been in turmoil and his work as a conductor was having to be rebuilt after the disbandment of his CBS Orchestra.
www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=6344   (528 words)

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