The Wrong Man

Here's a Hitchcock I liked pretty well. Henry Fonda does an excellent job as a cello player who does everything he can to pull things together for his wife and 2 sons. But one day something goes terribly wrong. While trying to get insurance for his wife's wisdom teeth, he's mistaken for a bank robber. How's that for an intro? I really like Henry Fonda's acting job in this movie. Oh fine I like Henry's acting in all his movies. He's so versatile. Around the time I watched this movie I also saw him in War and Peace as some college intellectual dude in Russia and Yours Mine and Ours as a father of 10 and soon 18 or something I don't remember. Anyway the point is that it seems like you can put Henry Fonda at any role and he'll always impress you. As for Hitchcockness of this movie? Well the plot seemed pretty typical. A regular person thrown into some crazy thing by accident, but one thing not so typical was that Alfred doesn't make an appearance in this movie like he does in all the others. He just comes in at the start and says something about not wanting to be a distraction cuz this really happened to some guy somewhere. Anyway I wish he had appeared anyway I look forward to those occasions. Jk. Well yeah. This movie just makes you question yourself about how sure you are of things all the time. And it's kind of frustrating cuz you're expecting this guy to jump out and stand up for himself but it never happens, he just conforms to everything deciding that,"an innocent man has nothing to fear." But gosh he has everything to fear! Run away! Instead his wife blames herself for his problems and gets stuck in a mental hospital for 3 yrs. But they all live happily ever after. So I recommend this movie. It's a decent Hitchcock. Oh and I think the music was good, I haven't seen this in a while.