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Whenever I uncover a book about a movie I’m not super familiar with, I always like to watch the movie in question before or during the time I’m reading the book. In a case like this, it almost felt like I had already watched the movie based on the information I read early on in this book.
Nothing to Fear is a deep dive into the world of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 film The Wrong Man, starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film is based on true events and follows Manny Balestrero (Fonda) as he is falsely accused of holding up a local insurance office in New York. We see Manny visit the insurance office where several workers identify him as the man who had previously held up the office. Manny is then arrested, placed in a line-up for identification, arraigned, and eventually placed on trial. Through all this his wife Rose (Miles) falls deeper into depression and is eventually admitted to a mental hospital while Manny fights the charges against him. The book covers this film and the case it was based on in three parts. Isralowitz first devotes several chapters to other stories of false arrests and misidentification, mainly throughout New York City in the early 1900s, but in a few other states as well. He then moves into a deep analysis of the Balestrero case itself, followed by a section devoted to analyzing the film itself.
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