You live another 105 minutes

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Movie
German title You live another 105 minutes
Original title Sorry, wrong number
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1948
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Anatole Litvak
script Lucille Fletcher
production Anatole Litvak
Hal B. Wallis
music Franz Waxman
camera Sol Polito
cut Warren Low
occupation

You're Still Living 105 Minutes is an American crime film from 1948 by Anatole Litvak . The screenplay for Film noir was based on a radio play by the screenwriter Lucille Fletcher that had been broadcast five years earlier. The premiere of the film took place on September 1, 1948. In Germany it first appeared in cinemas on June 12, 1951.

action

Leona Cotterell and Sally Hunt are high school friends celebrating college graduation. Sally's friend Henry Stevenson, with whom Leona falls in love, is also present at the party. Although Henry is not a particularly good match as a simple salesman, Leona wants to marry him. Her father James cannot change her mind either. However, the couple will not be happy after the wedding. Although Henry got a well-paid job from his father-in-law, he is not satisfied with it because he prefers to start his own business. The stress leads to a heart disease in Leona, which ties her to bed.

Henry doesn't show up one evening. Worried, Leona calls Henry's office. This leads to a faulty switching in the switching center. Leona witnesses a conversation between two men. One of the two is said to murder a woman at home alone in 105 minutes at 11:15 p.m. Leona reports the overheard conversation to the disturbance agency, but is referred to the police. There Sergeant Duffy takes on the case, but he can't do much with the vague information. Her father, who calls from Chicago every night, thinks it's a joke. Leona calls Henry's secretary, Elizabeth Jennings. She learns from her that her husband received a visit from a Mrs. Lord that morning, went to dinner with her and has not come back to the office since.

Leona calls Mrs. Lord, who is very vague during the phone conversation so that her husband Frederick does not notice. She calls Leona back from a phone booth. It turns out that Mrs. Lord Leona's friend Sally is. She is married to Frederick, a prosecutor, and has one son. Sally wanted to warn Henry because her husband is investigating him with a Detective Robertson. However, Sally does not know the reason for the investigation. Desperate Leona calls her doctor Dr. Alexander on. He's currently at a party and refuses to attend. He reminds her of a letter he wrote her. However, Leona has not received any mail, which amazes the doctor. He explains that Henry was with him ten days ago and that he has learned the results. Leona is physically healthy, her heart condition is a neurotic problem. Henry persuaded him to write the letter so that his wife wouldn't have to come to the practice.

Several times Leona receives calls from a Waldo Evans who urgently needs to speak to Henry. Leona can persuade him to tell her what's going on. Evans is a chemistry professor who works for Leona's father. He varied drugstore products and created secret formulas for them. Henry reached out to Evans a year ago. Evans was supposed to give Henry formulas and formulas. Henry has a buyer, the criminal Morano. Henry then separated from Morano in order to earn money on his own. Evans bought a house on Staten Island for storage . The house is called "Dunstan Terrace". However, Morano blackmailed Evans and Henry. Henry should raise the money with Leona's life insurance. Evans announced today to Henry that Morano had been arrested but had not revealed anything. Evans also burned the warehouse.

At 11 p.m. Leona hears that someone has sneaked into the house. At the same moment, Henry calls from New Haven . She apologizes to Henry for not giving him enough support when he wanted to start a new life. She informs him of her conversation with Evans, whereupon he confesses to the theft from her father. Then he asks her to go to the window and call for help. But Leona is too weak to get up. She hears footsteps on the stairs, the telephone connection breaks off. Henry calls again. A male voice answers and says: “ Sorry, wrong number. ” (Originally: “ Sorry, wrong number. ”) Henry is arrested by the police in front of the phone booth.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films describes this film as an “extremely exciting, dark thriller based on a successful radio play that thrives on the highly dramatic condensation of the situation and the intense acting. Barbara Stanwyck succeeds in the oppressive psychological study of a lonely person in escalating fear of death. "

Cinema magazine finds the film “extremely exciting even in the age of mobile phones” and calls it a “gripping, dark chamber noir game”.

For the variety , the film is a “real shocker”. Franz Waxman's music in particular emphasizes the “constantly growing tension”.

Marjorie Baumgarten of the Austin Chronicle describes Litvak's crime thriller as a "tight thriller".

Armin Jäger analyzes the portrayal of the father, in which the "ominous associations" would suggest an abuse relationship, "as clearly as was only possible under the censorship of the US cinema at that time". When comparing radio play and film, he comes to the conclusion that the film's “dramaturgical cohesion” is “all the more remarkable as the script was developed from a short radio play, which only forms part of the framework of the finished film. In fact, the cold murder at the end of the radio play and its cynical closing line - at the same time the title - are only emotionally powerful in the film, because the female main character, despite all the neuroses, increasingly reveals himself to the viewer as a person with a marked soul. But just when Leona and her husband finally find each other on the phone, they pay the price for having been 'wrongly connected' for so long in their married life. "

Awards

Barbara Stanwyck received an Oscar nomination for best actress in 1949 . Lucille Fletcher was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the WGA Award from the Writers Guild of America .

background

The almost 30-minute radio play Sorry, wrong number on which the film is based was first broadcast on May 25, 1943 as the 43rd episode of the Suspense series by CBS Radio and met with such keen audience interest that it continued within the Suspense series until it was discontinued 945 episodes were staged a further six times in 1962, each time with Agnes Moorehead in the lead role. Agnes Moorehead also recorded a record version in 1952 and brought an abridged version as part of her one-woman show, with which she was on tour in the USA in the 1950s.

Barbara Stanwyck was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the feature film, after which she played her role again in another radio play version for CBS Radio, this time for the series Lux Radio Theater . This radio play version was based on the film script and lasted approximately one hour.

While Ann Richards made just one more film, it was the film debut for John Bromfield. Tito Vuolo can be seen in an unnamed minor role as the waiter Albert .

For the equipment u. a. Art director Hans Dreier and set decorator Sam Comer. The costumes were made by Edith Head . Gordon Jennings took care of the special effects, while his colleague Farciot Edouard was there as a camera technician.

In Germany in 1962 , Paul Verhoeven directed a remake for television with Ingrid Andree and Harald Leipnitz in the leading roles under the title Bedaure, Wrongly Connected .

Six radio plays were also produced under the title Wrongly connected :

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ You live another 105 minutes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cinema.de
  3. ↑ variety.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
  4. ↑ austinchronicle.com
  5. ↑ Armin Jäger: You live another 105 minutes. In: Thomas Koebner , Hans Jürgen Wulff (eds.): Film genres. Thriller (= RUB . No. 19145). Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-019145-3 , pp. 40–43, here 42.
  6. ↑ Armin Jäger: You live another 105 minutes. In: Thomas Koebner , Hans Jürgen Wulff (eds.): Film genres. Thriller (= RUB . No. 19145). Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-019145-3 , pp. 40–43, here 44.