Hitchcock Chronology: Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero...

1953

January

• 14th - New York musician Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero is arrested and charged with a robbery he didn't commit. His story will later be told in the Hitchcock film The Wrong Man.

June

• Herbert Brean's "A Case of Identity", detailing the arrest and subsequent release of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, is published in the June edition of LIFE magazine. Brean also sells a screen treatment of the story to Warner Brothers. Eventually, this will be filmed as The Wrong Man.

1956

January

• Hitchcock, Henry Fonda and Vera Miles travel to Florida to meet the Balestrero family, to help prepare the actors for The Wrong Man.

February

• Hitchcock travels to New York, to scout locations for The Wrong Man and to talk to those involved with the Balestrero trial.