Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In an early scene of the 1948 film Call Northside 777, Jimmy Stewart, who plays a reporter at the Chicago Times, interviews a ...

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In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek is sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal ...

Call Northside 777 has all the separate ingredients for a sock film but registers only with a mild impact due to a lack of integration. Among the film's principal drawbacks is James Stewart's jarring ...

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In 1932, Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) is convicted of the murder of a Chicago policeman in a mob-connected speakeasy. Eleven years later, his mother, Tillie (Kasia Orzazewski), takes out a newspaper ...

Made in 1948, Call Northside 777 is a prime example of the intelligent late-1940s studio pic, at a peak that wouldn't last too much longer. James Stewart is a cynical reporter with his eye on the main ...

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. For some time, O'Neal ...

As the producers make patently clear at the outset, this picture is straight from the annals of the Chicago Times, depicting events that actually happened, and filmed in the authentic locals.