Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) on Netflix
David Trask, an attorney, leaves his wife and buys a ticket to Los Angeles. A weather delay strands him with three fellow passengers: a doctor, an aspiring actress and a salesman.
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Plot summary
Iowa attorney David Trask leaves his wife Jane after she admits to an affair and buys a ticket to Los Angeles. When weather delays the flight, he gets to know three other travelers. Robert Fortness is a doctor who drinks and is going home to his wife Claire and their son Jerry; he wants to confess his part in a car crash that killed a colleague. Binky Gay, an actress, wants to free her husband Mike Carr from his mother Sally Carr. Eddie Hoke, a traveling salesman, shows off a photograph of his wife Marie in a swimsuit.
Cast
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- Genevieve Bellas Mrs. Fletcher(uncredited)
- Perdita Chandleras Mrs. Brooks(uncredited)
- Lulu Mae Bohrmanas Restaurant Patron(uncredited)
- Douglas Brooksas Undetermined Secondary Role(uncredited)
- Ralph Brooksas Airplane Passenger(uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
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- Bette Davis, then married to co-star Gary Merrill, read the script and had him ask director Jean Negulesco if she could take the relatively small role of Marie Hoke, calling it "a change of pace" and saying she believed in the part more than its length.
