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7.4/10
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Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
9K
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- Director
- Writers
- Jerome Cady(screen play)
- Jay Dratler(screen play)
- Leonard Hoffman(adaptation)
- Stars
- Director
- Writers
- Jerome Cady(screen play)
- Jay Dratler(screen play)
- Leonard Hoffman(adaptation)
- Stars
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Joanne De Bergh
- Helen Wiecek
- (as Joanne de Bergh)
Robert Adler
- Taxicab Driver
- (uncredited)
Richard Bishop
- Warden of Stateville Prison
- (uncredited)
Larry J. Blake
- Police Photographic Technician
- (uncredited)
John Bleifer
- Jan Gruska
- (uncredited)
Truman Bradley
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Dollie Caillet
- Secretary
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Jerome Cady(screen play)
- Jay Dratler(screen play)
- Leonard Hoffman(adaptation)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe man administering the polygraph test to convict Richard Conte was the inventor of the polygraph or lie detector machine, Leonarde Keeler. He played himself in the movie.
- GoofsSPOILER: It's highly unlikely that there would have been enough resolution in the original print to see a headline, let alone read the date on the newspaper. If there were, they would have been able to easily see the date with a simple magnifying glass. Only photographic enlargement performed on the original negative could possibly reveal additional small details. Instead they created a new negative from the print in order to make the enlargements. Since the new negative is made from the print, there is no way to recreate details that can't be seen on that print in the first place. If your original is missing enough legibility to see the fine details, no amount of copying or enlarging can possibly improve upon that. Also, there's no need to read the date - in the first enlargement, probably, and definitely in the slightly larger second enlargement, it should be possible to identify the date from the layout of the newspaper page.
- Quotes
P.J. McNeal: [to warden, after trying to talk Tomek into confessing to get parole] You must run a nice jail; this guy doesn't want to get out either.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are printed on the pages of a book; it is also stated that this is a true story.
- ConnectionsEdited from Chicago palaa (1938)
- SoundtracksChicago (That Toddlin' Town)
(1922) (uncredited)
Music by Fred Fisher
Played during the Prohibition montage
Review
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reporter sets out to prove a convicted man is innocent
An eyewitness to a cop killing sends a man to the pen for 99 years. Eleven years later the convict's mother offers 5 thousand dollars to anyone proving her son is not guilty. A newspaperman looks into the case and becomes obsessed with gathering information which he is convinced will exonerate the convicted man. Tense, dramatic look at the seedy side of life.
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- helpless_dancer
- Jun 18, 1999
Details
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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