The 1948 film classic, “Sorry, Wrong Number,” screens on Friday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. at the the Billy Wilder Theater at UCLA Hammer Museum. The screening is presented by the UCLA Film and Television Archive as part of its “Out of the Ether: Radio Mysteries and Thrillers on Screen” series.
Barbara Stanwyck stars in the film as the lonely and bedridden Leona Svenson, who tries desperately to raise the alarm after she overhears a murder plot on the phone, only to realize that she is the intended victim. Claustrophobically structured in seemingly real time, director Anatole Litvak’s film speeds to its horrifying conclusion. Afterward, there will also be a screening of “The Phantom of Cresswood” (1932), an atmospheric whodunit centered on the untimely death of a gold digger.
Tickets are $10.00 and are available for purchase here.
