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Director:
Writers:
Jerome Cady (screenplay) and
Jay Dratler (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
1 February 1948 (USA) more
Tagline:
Reporter Uncovers New Clues In Wiecek Case more
Plot:
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a ten year old murder case. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Character Actor Charles Lane Dies at 102
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 11 July 2007)
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Reliable Jimmy Stewart fighting for a cause more (51 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| James Stewart | ... | P.J. 'Jim' McNeal | |
| Richard Conte | ... | Frank W. Wiecek | |
| Lee J. Cobb | ... | Brian Kelly | |
| Helen Walker | ... | Laura McNeal | |
| Betty Garde | ... | Wanda Skutnik | |
| Kasia Orzazewski | ... | Tillie Wiecek | |
| Joanne De Bergh | ... | Helen Wiecek (as Joanne de Bergh) | |
| Howard Smith | ... | K.L. Palmer | |
| Moroni Olsen | ... | Parole Board Chairman | |
| John McIntire | ... | Sam Faxon | |
| Paul Harvey | ... | Martin J. Burns |
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Also Known As:
Calling Northside 777
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Runtime:
111 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Norway:A (1948) | UK:U | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #12397) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Manitoba/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario)
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Thelma Ritter's role as the police captain's secretary was mostly deleted from the released print, but she can still briefly be seen and heard in one scene in which she tells James Stewart the captain will see him in his office. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: Wanda's Grocery at 1226 S. Ashland is shown to the right of address 1224. This is opposite from how even-numbered addresses are arranged on the south side of Chicago. more
Quotes:
Laura McNeal:
What's the matter, won't the pieces fit together?
P.J. McNeal:
*Some* of them, but they make the wrong picture.
Laura McNeal:
Pieces never make the wrong picture. Maybe you're looking at them from the wrong angle.
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Spoofed in High Anxiety (1977) more
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Call Northside 777 is a genuinely engaging film. It has reliable James Stewart as an investigative reporter on a story about an alleged cop killer in prison. At first he believes that the prisoner is guilty but then becomes convinced otherwise and is willing to risk his professional reputation on clearing him. The pace of the film is told like a gritty docudrama with no dramatic musical underscore for effect. But more importantly, this film is interesting to watch for a time capsule of post WWII Chicago. The Chicago Times, the police precincts, the ethnic neighborhoods that existed then and a whole sequence of a wireless photo copier. This is generations before the fax machine was ever conceived. This film is important as Stewart was beginning his maturing film roles in the postwar period and taking on good narrative stories and less goodguy next door roles which were going out of fashion.