Though the very premise of the film, the "wrong man" syndrome, seems to fall perfectly into the realm of Hitchcock, this film is one of his weakest of the period. The initial mistake and the process of his imprisonment are intriguing, but unfortunately, the plot does not reach much further than that. The suspense ends soon after the original mistaken identification, and devolves into the bizarre story of a wife gone mad and a rather boring court case. Vera Miles is bland and her part is ambiguous and irritating more than mysterious. The one saving grace for the film is Henry Fonda, whose heartfelt performance was the sole interest for me for most of the film.
Review of The Wrong Man
