Sorry, Wrong Number

[size=33]Leona Stevenson is a spoiled bedridden daughter of wealthy businessman James Cotterell. She tries to reach her husband, Henry. The servants have the night off and she is alone in the apartment. She overhears two men planning a murder via what seems to be a crossed telephone connection. The call cuts off without Leona learning very much other than it is scheduled for the night, when a passing train hides any sounds. She calls the telephone company and the police, but with a few concrete details, they do nothing.[/size]
[size=33]While attempting to locate Henry, Leona inadvertently recalls her past in flashbacks. She learns that the secretary met Henry that day with an attractive woman named Sally Lord and did not return to the office. Leona recognizes the former as Sally Hunt, a college friend who used to be in love with Henry, who at the time was poor and working in a drug store. Leona took Henry from Sally, and married him against her father's wishes. Sally later married Fred Lord, a lawyer in the district attorney's office. From overheard conversations, she learns her husband was near to resolving an investigation about Henry somehow. Sally is concerned she followed her husband and two associates to a mysterious meeting at the abandoned house on Staten Island. The house sign is owned by Waldo Evans, a chemist working for Leona's father. Sally arranged to meet Henry after warning him. He received a phone call, left the table and did not return. Leona concludes the truth that the house has been destroyed, Morano has been arrested by the police and Waldo escaped them.[/size]
[size=33]Leona receives a message from Henry, stating he left the town for work he had forgotten about and he will return on Sunday. Leona gets in touch with Dr. Phillip Alexander, the specialist she had come to New York to see regarding her lifelong heart troubles. Alexander reveals that he gave Henry her prognosis ten days ago, something that Henry kept from her. In a flashback, Leona had gone some years without any cardiac episodes, before marrying Henry. Henry learns about her health issues for a few years, when she suffered a cardiac arrest during a quarrel. It becomes clear Leona tries to use Henry, insisting he worked for her father even though he is sadly bored. As their troubles become more severe, Leona became more frequent, until she is bedridden. However, Alexander had the problems as purely psychosomatic; nothing is wrong with her physically, but he thinks she needs psychiatric help.[/size]
[size=33]Leona calls Waldo. He reluctantly discloses that Henry recruited him to steal chemicals from the Cotterell drug company and sell them for Morano. Henry tries to bypass Morano when Waldo was transferred. However, Morano showed up with two thugs and tricks Henry into signing an IOU for $200,000 for his lost profit in three months. When Henry protested he had insufficient money, Morano pointed out that Leona has a large insurance policy. With Morano in custody, Waldo stresses that Henry no longer raises the sum. He gives Leona a number to reach Henry, but when she calls she discovers that it is for the city morgue, Leona phones a nurse at the hospital. The frantic Henry calls the traumatized Leona at the telephone booth, but Leona is killed by an unnamed intruder. Before being arrested, Henry inadvertently calls the killer on the phone and he tells him that he has the wrong number.[/size]