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Tangled Wires... Whispering of Murder! Tangled Lives... Fighting to Escape!
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Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson, William Conrad, John Bromfield, Jimmy Hunt
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
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Short description
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
What's left behind the scenes
- Lucille Fletcher wrote the film's screenplay based on her own radio play. Hollywood censorship initially opposed those moments in Fletcher's script that touched on drug trafficking; as a result, the script was significantly edited compared to the radio version.
- The large emerald engagement ring worn by Barbara Stanwyck’s character (1907-1990) was a real – and very expensive – piece of jewelry that the studio borrowed temporarily from the Los Angeles jewelry company Harry Winston Jewelers. At the end of each shooting day, the ring was locked in Paramount Pictures’ safe.
- The jeweled cigarette case that Barbara Stanwyck’s character hands to the character played by Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) belonged to the actress herself. It was a gift from her close friend Joan Crawford (1904-1977).
- Barbara Stanwyck insisted that she started to gray so early precisely because of the terror she portrayed in the bedroom scenes.
- Director Anatole Litvak (1902-1974) and Burt Lancaster regularly argued about how the role of Henry should be played. Lancaster even threatened to leave the project altogether. On that occasion, Litvak and Lancaster resolved their differences, but they never worked with each other again.
- Former CIA Director Richard Helms (1913-2002) served as a consultant on Robert Redford’s role.
- The only feature film shot in the World Trade Center.
- The film is set in winter, but it was shot in autumn. Before filming began, the leaves had to be stripped from the trees on the streets. Robert Redford personally oversaw this process to ensure that the plants were not harmed.
- Lucille Fletcher wrote the film's screenplay based on her own radio play. Hollywood censors initially opposed the parts of Fletcher's script that dealt with drug trafficking; as a result, the screenplay was heavily edited compared to the radio version.
- The engagement ring with a massive emerald worn by Barbara Stanwyck's (1907-1990) character was a real—and very expensive—piece of jewelry, which the studio borrowed from the Los Angeles jewelry company Harry Winston Jewelers. At the end of each filming day, the ring was locked away in a Paramount Pictures safe.
- The cigarette case with a gemstone on the clasp, which Barbara Stanwyck's character hands to the character played by Burt Lancaster (1913-1994), belonged to the actress herself. It was a gift from her close friend Joan Crawford (1904-1977).
- Barbara Stanwyck claimed that she began turning gray so early specifically because of the terror she had to portray in the bedroom scenes.
- Director Anatole Litvak (1902-1974) and Burt Lancaster frequently argued over exactly how the role of Henry should be played. Lancaster even threatened to leave the project entirely. While Litvak and Lancaster settled their differences that time, they never worked together again.
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