Is it a lifeline or a life-or-death-line? Wealthy shut-in Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) depends on her phone. When her husband's (Burt Lancaster) office line is continuously busy, she has the operator intervene and is mistakenly connected to a call in which two men are planning a murder . . . perhaps hers. Told through a series of dizzying flashbacks, Sorry, Wrong Number gets everything right: the mounting hysteria, the deceptive story line, the helplessness of Leona seen through the oppressive opulence of her apartment. Wendell Corey plays the ever-caring Dr. Alexander, an overly confident physician who deems Leona's woes psychosomatic. The wrong number, again.