The Wrong Man - Church Lane, Leytonstone, London, UK
N 51° 34.093 E 000° 00.514
31U E 292687 N 5717256
Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone and to commemorate the life and works of this great film-maker a permanent gallery has been set-up in the underpass that forms the entrance to Leytonstone tube station. The images are all mosaics.
Waymark Code: WMM1ZH
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/05/2014
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The co-ordinates given are for the Church Lane entrance to the underpass where a stainless-steel plaque (see photos) advises of the Hitchcock Gallery. All the exhibits are mosaics.
This mosaic is entitled "The Wrong Man". The plaque, at the mosaic, tells us:
The Wrong Man
1956
Hitchcock's bleakly realistic account of a real-life story has Henry Fonda as New York musician Christopher Emmanuel Ballestrero mistakenly identified by the police as an armed robber.
"When I was no more than six years of age. I did something that my father considered worthy of reprimand. He sent me to the local police station with a note. The officer on duty read it and locked me in a jail cell for five minutes, saying This is what we do to naughty boys.' I have, ever since, gone to any lengths to avoid arrest and confinement To you young people my message is - Stay out of jail!" - Alfred Hitchcock
The mosaic shows, in the foreground, a figure in evening dress wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper. Beyond him, in the centre of the mosaic, is what appears to be a priest also reading a paper or magazine. In the background there are two more figures that appear to be staff in a cafe or bar. Apart from a little bit of yellow and orange nearly all the other colours used in this mosaic tend to be less vibrant but do bring some life to the mosaic especially the face of the figure in the foreground.
The mosaic is about four feet high by four feet wide and is located on a curved wall at the Church Lane entrance to the underpass.