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George_Chabot
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Call Northside 777 if you want to speak to Jimmy Stewart

byGeorge_Chabot Mar 11, 2009
58 Helpfuls 59 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Jimmy Stewart, Richard Conte, Photography
Cons Long-winded obvious narration
Recommended it? Yes

Call Northside 777 (1948)

This is one of a string of reality-type movies exploring actual crimes that were released in the late 40s and established a trend that still surfaces once in a while showing a crusading reporter trying to prove a suspect is not guilty.  Because we have likely seen... Read full review »

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Call NORTHSIDE 777- Who framed my son Frank? Was it really Film Noir?

byASourdough4 Jul 12, 2008
36 Helpfuls 37 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Dramatic story, great performances, unintended historical archive of WWII technical...
Cons Where'd the $5,000 go? Voiceover is fatuous; 'voice of god' (or Sergeant...
Recommended it? Yes

Call NORTHSIDE 777 - Crime Reporter at Large
Fox Film Noir 02

"...that's the trouble about being innocent; one never knows what really happened..."

INTRODUCTION October 10, 1932
________________________ _________
. . . PERSONAL ---- NOTICES
~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~... Read full review »

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Not Guilty? Yeah, and I've got some lake front property in Arizona to sell, too.

byisinga May 20, 2001
36 Helpfuls 37 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Jimmie Stewart in a TRUE story instead of a semi-true story.
Cons It shows that the abuses of justice are nothing new in our great society.
Recommended it? Yes

This one has been around for a while -- since 1948, in fact. The trouble is that not that many people bother to rent or buy "old black and white movies" no matter how good they are. No matter how hard I try, I can't get my daughter to watch them with me on purpose. When, however, she watches one... Read full review »

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James Stewart is a Crusading Reporter in Call Northside 777

byDavidMac Mar 14, 2004
33 Helpfuls 34 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, good presentation of the story.
Cons some aspects of the crime not fully solved.
Recommended it? Yes

In a quest for ratings, even the best news organizations aren't above creating a sensationalist ruckus on their TV screens or newspaper pages. While it is hard to say that no widely-covered story does not deserve all that coverage, purely for the sake of knowledge, it is true that many news... Read full review »

spelvini
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The Plain Simple Facts

byspelvini Sep 26, 2006
13 Helpfuls 14 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros great investigative story steeped in noir
Cons why can't we know the truth?
Recommended it? Yes

We each have some personal satisfaction grid that we submit a film to, in order to access its value and success as a diversion. I have my own personal touchstone that I mentally subject all films to.

When I get up hungry in the middle of the night and go to the refrigerator for a snack,... Read full review »

Stephen_Murray
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Noirish precursor to James Stewart's Hitchcock movies of the 1950s

byStephen_Murray Mar 31, 2010
2 Helpfuls 3 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Enjoyable, James Stewart
Cons None submitted
Recommended it? Yes

Call[ing] Northside 777 (1948, directed by Henry Hathaway) was a transition from the aw-shucks Jimmy Stewart to the tough and obsessive James Stewart of Hitchcock, Mann, and Preminger films. Stewart played a fairly jaded newspaper reporter, P. J. MacNeal, whose boss (Lee J. Cobb) has him look into... Read full review »

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In this documentary- style drama based on a true story, a reporter tries to prove that a man in prison for murder has been wrongly convicted. A great performance by Stewart as the persistent journalist.

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In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. When he begins to investigate he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

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Call Northside 777 (Full Frame)

Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and moral conflict. When a classified ad grabs the attention of Chicago Times editor Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb), he sends ace reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to dig up new evidence in the 11-year-old case of a cop killer: It appears that Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) has taken a fall, and been wrongly imprisoned for the murder. Although hard-nosed McNeal is initially skeptical, he eventually believes that Wiecek was, in fact, a patsy. And although McNeal hits one dead end after another, the avid newsman never gives up the search for justice for the innocent Wiecek. Audio Commentary by Authors and Historians James Ursini and Alain Silver, Fox Movietone News: Motion Picture Stars Attend Premiere of "Call Northside 777", Theatrical Trailer. Presented in Black & White, Subtitles: English (Closed Captioned) and Spanish.

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