Goofs

The police truck Manny is loaded into to take him to Long Island jail has the number 1437 painted on it. The next shot shows the police truck crossing a bridge with the number 1403 visible on it. When it arrives at the jail it again has the number 1437.

After Manny is fingerprinted, he wipes his inked hands on a paper towel, but much of the ink stays on his fingers. He is shown looking at his hands in the jail cell a few shots afterwards, and his fingers are completely clean even though he never washed them in between walking to the jail cell and while inside the cell.

When Manny is put in the jail cell for the night, a man asks for and takes his tie. In the morning he is wearing the tie again.

When Manny first comes into the insurance office and the clerks are talking amongst themselves, Miss Duffield refers to Miss Dennerly (played by Peggy Webber) as Peggy; later, during the trial in his opening statement, Mr. Tomasini calls her Alice Dennerly, suggesting that actress Anna Karen mistakenly used Webber's real name instead of her character's name.

Manny walks in the corridor of the prison carrying the pillow with nothing on it. When he is inside the cell, a cannikin appears on the pillow.

Christopher Emanuel Balestrero is called "Chris" by the police until they get him to the precinct and start parading him around the town to be identified. When they get back to the precinct, they begin calling him "Manny". Although he is not seen advising them of his preference to be called Manny, this could have happened between scenes.

When the police book Manny, they fingerprint him, presumably to compare his prints to fingerprints taken from crime scenes; however, taking his fingerprints would be a routine procedure for any suspect being booked regardless of the evidence or other suspected crimes. One piece of evidence the police actually try to use against him is the holdup note that was given to the clerk. If Manny's prints were on the note, he would be proven guilty - case closed; but if not, he would not necessarily be exonerated (the robber may have worn gloves - when he is seen during a later robbery, he generally has his hands in his coat pockets). The police are not seen checking the note for fingerprints, which would likely have already been done due to the robbery having occurred some weeks earlier. Therefore, simply dusting the note for prints and comparing the results to those taken from Manny would not necessarily have solved the whole case, as some viewers might surmise.

Twice when Manny enters the house, it may seem that he has left the door open. The first time he enters, he makes a slight closing motion and a click is heard, but the door is not seen closing due to the camera's position blocking such a view; obviously, the viewer is to presume that the camera is not present and that the door was closed out of view.

Manny states to the police that he is 38 years old. Henry Fonda was clearly a lot older than that. In fact, when the movie was shot, he turned 51. However, actors often are called upon to portray characters of vastly different heights, races, ages, etc. This does not constitute a Goof in the movie, but likely indicates a questionable casting choice; even then, the choice often is to use an actor that will enhance the commercial viability of the film.

It is illogical that the authorities did not consider that Manny would return to the insurance company he'd allegedly robbed, two more times, and on a third visit would actually reveal his true identity when asking about taking out a loan. To repeatedly show himself there, and also reveal his true identity, is inconsistent with him having been the one who'd robbed the company earlier.

Even though the movie takes place in 1953, many of the automobiles in the background are from as late as 1956 (when this movie was produced).

As Rose is being led up the stairs of the mental treatment facility, the shadow of someone's head appears in the bottom left corner behind the lamp. It seems as though someone walked past a bulb.

When Manny (Henry Fonda) enters prison, a prisoner shouts "What'd they get you for, Henry?", using the actor's name.

As he begins his opening argument in the trial with "May it please the court", Frank O'Connor (Anthony Quayle) bows to the judge. That's standard procedure in a British courtroom, but would be highly unusual in an American one. Quayle and Alfred Hitchcock, both being British, may not have realized the error.

The address Manny gives the police and his lawyer is 4024 78th street. All addresses in the NYC borough of Queens are hyphenated with the first two digits being the last cross street and the last being the house number. When Manny gives his address, he should have said 40-24 78 St., Jackson Heights.

Richard Robbins, the actor portraying the actual perpetrator of the robberies of which Henry Fonda (Chris) is accused, bears no actual physical resemblance of any consequence to Fonda, and vice versa, so all the witnesses' testimonies as to the identification of the culprit are of no real value; since it's based on a much publicized true story, Alfred Hitchcock's casting director must be accused and convicted of this criminal action.