sorry wrong number la theatre works free download Sorry, Wrong Number. A bedridden neurotic woman dials a number and is accidentally connected to a call between two men who are plotting a murder. She becomes increasingly frantic as no one takes her fright seriously and time begins to run out. Prepare to be spooked all over again in this thrilling adaptation! Producer and Director: Fred Greenhalgh. as Mrs. Stevenson Tootie Van Reenen as Operator Craig Bowden as Man 1 and Man 3 as Man 2 as Chief Operator and Cop as Information and Nurse. Field recordist Randall Farr, Musical Score by Barb Truex. Recorded on location in the Greater Portland Maine area the summer of 2009. Sorry Wrong Number. In two plays, an invalid woman tries to stop an unidentified person from killing her after overhearing the plot over the phone, and a driver tries to rid himself of a ghostly hitchhiker that follows him during a cross-country road trip. Author : Lucille Fletcher. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. ISBN: 0822210592. Category: Drama. In two plays, an invalid woman tries to stop an unidentified person from killing her after overhearing the plot over the phone, and a driver tries to rid himself of a ghostly hitchhiker that follows him during a cross-country road trip. A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher s Sorry Wrong Number. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. Author : Gale, Cengage Learning. Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning. ISBN: 9781410358868. Category: Literary Criticism. A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs. Sorry Wrong Number. When wires get crossed, a woman accidentally overhears the telephone conversation of two men plotting a murder. Author : Lucille Fletcher. Publisher: LA Theatre Works. ISBN: 1580818374. Category: Audiobooks. When wires get crossed, a woman accidentally overhears the telephone conversation of two men plotting a murder. and terror mounts as the woman slowly realizes that the intended victim is herself. This legendary one-act became one of radios most famous plays, and was later adapted into a now classic work of film noir starring and Burt Lancaster. [CD] Sorry, Wrong Number By Fletcher, Lucille. UnbeatableSalecom.txt offers best price and value for American products. Buy [CD] Sorry, Wrong Number By Fletcher, Lucille online from UnbeatableSalecom.txt, experience best customer service and secure online shopping. 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They do not reflect our opinions. We take no responsibility for the content of ratings and reviews submitted by users. Sorry, Wrong Number. - Operator? Operator? - Your call, please. I've been ringing Murray Hill 3-5097 for the last half hour. The line is always busy. Will you ring it for me, please? Murray Hill 3-5097. - One moment, please. - My husband's office. He should've been home hours ago. I can't think what's keeping him. or why that ridiculous wire should be busy. They always close that office at 6: 00. Ringing Murray Hill 3-5097. Thank you. Hello? Hello? Hello, Mr. Stevenson, please. - I want to speak to Mr. Stevenson. - Hello, George? - Speaking. - What number am I calling? I got your message, George. Everything okay for tonight? - Yeah, everything's okay. - Excuse me. What's going on here? I'm using this wire. - It's still 11: 15, George? - 11: 15 is right. - You got it all straight now? - Yeah, I think so. At 11: 00, the private patrolman goes around to the bar. on 2nd Avenue for a beer. Then I get in through the kitchen window at the back. Then I wait till the train goes over the bridge. in case her window is open and she should scream. Hello? Who is this? I forgot to ask you. Still don't wanna use the gun? Make it quick. Our client doesn't wish to make her suffer long. Okay, George, don't worry. There won't be any slipup. And don't forget to take the rings and bracelets. and the jewelry in the bureau drawer. Our client wishes to make it look like simple robbery. Simple robbery. That's very important. Okay, okay. Now, let me just check the address again. It's. Hello? - Your call, please. - You've given me a wrong number. I'm sorry, madam. What number were you calling? I was calling Murray Hill 3-5097. That's my husband's office. and instead, I was cut into some other number that you dialed. The wires must have crossed, and I heard the most dreadful thing. - A murder. - Yes, madam? And now, I want you to get that wrong number back for me at once. I'm sorry, madam. I do not understand. You dialed a number for me just a moment ago. Murray Hill 3-5097. It was busy for so long, and I asked you to get it and you did. And then those. those horrible men came on and. Well, it's unnerved me dreadfully. I'm an invalid. I will connect you with the chief operator. Please. - Chief Operator. May I help you? - I'm an invalid. and I've just had a dreadful shock tonight over the telephone. and I'm very anxious to trace the call. It was about a murder. a terrible, coldblooded murder. of a poor, innocent woman tonight at 11: 15. I was trying to reach my husband's office. He should've been home hours ago. I'm all alone tonight. My nurse has the night off, because my husband had promised. As a matter of fact, he had sworn he'd be home by 6:00. I don't know any of the neighbors, as we live permanently in Chicago. Well, it so happens that the couple I have working for me. had some important date or other. I don't know. A movie, I suppose. They said it was promised them three weeks ago. You could've thought they'd have checked with me before leaving. had some realization of my condition. But I've been ringing and ringing the bell for nearly an hour. hoping they'd come back or something. - There isn't a sound downstairs. - Yes, madam. So when I kept getting the busy signal in my husband's office. I naturally dialed the operator and told her to try it, and she did. Then, out of a clear sky, I was cut into this ghastly conversation. between two killers. And now, I'd like you to trace it for me at once. - Well, madam, that depends. Violet Lucille Fletcher (March 28, 1912 – August 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her credits include The Hitch-Hiker, an original radio play written for and adapted for a notable episode of The Twilight Zone television series. Lucille Fletcher also wrote Sorry, Wrong Number, one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American radio, which she adapted and expanded for the 1948 film noir classic of the same name. Married to composer Bernard Herrmann in 1939, she wrote the libretto for his opera Wuthering Heights, which he began in 1943 and completed in 1951, after their divorce. more… Sorry, Wrong Number. Sorry, Wrong Number is a 1948 American thriller film noir directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. [2] It tells the story of a woman who overhears a murder plot. The film was adapted by Lucille Fletcher from her 1943 radio play. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. It is one of the few pre-1950 Paramount Pictures films that remained in the studio's library (the rest are currently owned by NBCUniversal). [ citation needed ] Contents. Leona Stevenson is the spoiled, bedridden daughter of wealthy businessman James Cotterell. One day, while listening to what seems to be a crossed telephone connection, she hears two men planning a woman's murder. The call cuts off without Leona learning very much other than it is scheduled for 11:15pm, when a passing train will hide any sounds. She calls the telephone company and the police, but with few concrete details, they can do nothing. Complicating matters, her husband Henry is overdue and their servants have the night off, leaving her all alone in a Manhattan apartment. As she makes a number of phone calls trying to locate Henry, Leona inadvertently begins to piece together the mystery in flashbacks. When Leona reaches Henry's secretary, Elizabeth Jennings, she learns that he took an attractive woman, Sally Lord, to lunch and did not return to the office. Sally Lord turns out to be the former Sally Hunt. Leona stole then-drug-store-employee Henry from Sally, and married him against her father's wishes. Sally is now the wife of Fred Lord, a lawyer in the district attorney's office. From overheard conversations, she learned that her husband was close to resolving an investigation that involves Henry somehow. Sally became so concerned that she followed her husband and two associates to a mysterious meeting in a seemingly abandoned house on Staten Island. The house, according to a "no trespassing" sign, belongs to a Waldo Evans, a chemist working for her father. Sally arranged to meet Henry for lunch, but before she could warn him, he left the table and did not return. Later, Sally calls Leona with more news. The house on Staten Island has burned down, and three men, including one named Morano have been arrested. Evans, however, has escaped. Leona then receives a message from Henry stating he has gone out of town on business he had forgotten about and will not be back until Sunday. Leona next gets in touch with Dr. Phillip Alexander, a specialist she had come to New York to see regarding her lifelong heart troubles. Alexander reveals that he gave Henry her prognosis ten days before, something that Henry kept from her. Henry had married Leona without being aware of her health problems. He first found out when she had a heart attack after they quarreled about his attempt to get a job on his own, rather than being a do-nothing vice president in his father-in-law's business. Cotterell sabotaged his job interview. Leona's attacks became more and more frequent, until she finally took to her bed about a year ago. Alexander, however, diagnosed Leona's problems as purely psychosomatic; nothing is wrong with her physically. Leona goes into hysterics and phones a hospital, asking to hire a nurse for the night. The receptionist tells her that they are short-staffed and she can only have a nurse if the doctor feels it is an emergency. She thinks it is only 11:00 pm, but discovers her clock has stopped. Leona receives a telephone call from Waldo. He reluctantly discloses that Henry recruited him to steal chemicals from the Cotterell drug company to sell to Morano. Later, Henry decided to bypass Morano when Waldo was transferred. Morano, however, showed up with two thugs and intimidated Henry into signing an IOU for $200,000 for his lost profits, due in three months. When Henry protested that he did not have that much, Morano pointed out that Leona must have a large insurance policy. With Morano now in custody, Waldo stresses that Henry no longer has to raise the sum. Waldo gives Leona a number to call to locate Henry, but when she calls she discovers that it is for the city morgue. When Henry calls her from a train station, Leona gives him Waldo's message. Seeing that it is only minutes from 11:15, he pleads with her to go to the balcony and scream for help, but she protests that she cannot, though she can hear somebody downstairs. When the intruder enters her bedroom, she begs for her life, then screams. Unaware of the policemen about to apprehend him, Henry frantically calls back, only to have a man answer, "Sorry, wrong number." as Leona Stevenson as Henry J. Stevenson as Sally Hunt Lord as Dr. Philip Alexander Harold Vermilyea as Waldo Evans as James Cotterell as Fred Lord as Morano as Joe - Detective as Peter Lord Dorothy Neumann as Elizabeth Jennings Paul Fierro as Harpootlian Bill Cartledge as Page Boy (uncredited) as Wilkins Mineral (uncredited) Production. Sorry, Wrong Number conforms to many of the conventions of film noir. The movie plays in real time, with many flashbacks to flesh out the story. Stanwyck's bedroom window overlooks the night skyline of Manhattan. The film is shot very dark, with looming shadows and a circling camera used to maintain a high level of suspense. [3] Hollywood's Production Code Administration initially objected to elements of Fletcher's screenplay, including its depiction of drug trafficking, and the script was significantly revised to win approval. [4] Reception. Variety listed the film as one of the Top Grossers of the year, earning $2,850,000 in the domestic market alone. [5] Radio play. Lucille Fletcher's play originally aired on the Suspense radio program on May 25, 1943, essentially a one-woman show with Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Stevenson. The play was reprised seven times (on August 21, 1943, then in 1944, 1945, 1948, 1952, 1957 and 1960), each starring Moorehead. The final broadcast was on February 14, 1960. Orson Welles called Sorry, Wrong Number "the greatest single radio script ever written". [6] In 2015, the May 25, 1943 broadcast was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry. Adaptations. A radio adaptation of the film was broadcast January 9, 1950, on Lux Radio Theatre . Stanwyck recreated her screen role. Sorry, Wrong Number was made into a television play broadcast on station WCBW-TV (now WCBS-TV) in New York on January 30, 1946, starring Mildred Natwick. [7] A second live teleplay was broadcast on November 4, 1954, as the fourth episode of the CBS Climax! , starring Lillian Bronson, adapted by Fletcher herself, with music provided by her then-husband, Bernard Herrmann. [8] [ better source needed ] A version was produced for Australian television in 1958 starring Georgie Sterling. [9] Sterling had performed in the play on radio in 1948. [10] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. [11] Another television version aired in 1989, starring Loni Anderson, Patrick Macnee and Hal Holbrook. It was directed by Tony Wharmby and adapted by Ann Louise Bardach. [12] Parody. On October 17, 1948, Stanwyck did a parody of Sorry, Wrong Number on The Program . [13] Other media. Clips from Sorry, Wrong Number were used for the 1982 comedy-mystery Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid , the 1991 thriller Dead Again and the 2014 action-thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit .