Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny and his family.
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
Maxwell Anderson (novel "The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero"); Angus MacPhail (screenplay); Maxwell Anderson (screenplay).
Starring
Henry Fonda (Christopher Emmanuel 'Manny' Balestrero); Vera Miles (Rose Balestrero); Anthony Quayle (Frank D. O'Connor); Harold J. Stone (Det. Lt. Bowers); John Heldabrand (Tomasini); Doreen Lang (Ann James); Norma Connolly (Betty Todd); Lola D'Annunzio (Olga Conforti, Manny's Sister); Robert Essen (Gregory Balestrero); Dayton Lummis (Judge Groat); Charles Cooper (Det. Matthews); Esther Minciotti (Mama Balestrero); Laurinda Barrett (Constance Willis); Nehemiah Persoff (Eugene 'Gene' Conforti); Kippy Campbell (Robert Balestrero). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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