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Call Northside 777

  • 1948
  • G
  • 1h 52m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
7,4/10
11 k
MA NOTE
James Stewart, Richard Conte, and Joanne De Bergh in Call Northside 777 (1948)
Trailer for this thriller starring James Stewart
Liretrailer1 min 53 s
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueChicago 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.

  • Director
    • Henry Hathaway
  • Writers
    • Jerome Cady
    • Jay Dratler
    • Leonard Hoffman
  • Stars
    • James Stewart
    • Richard Conte
    • Lee J. Cobb
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    7,4/10
    11 k
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • Henry Hathaway
    • Writers
      • Jerome Cady
      • Jay Dratler
      • Leonard Hoffman
    • Stars
      • James Stewart
      • Richard Conte
      • Lee J. Cobb
    • 139Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 50Commentaires de critiques
  • Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro
    • Prix
      • 4 victoires et 2 nominations au total

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    Rôles principaux74

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    James Stewart
    James Stewart
    • P.J. McNeal
    Richard Conte
    Richard Conte
    • Frank Wiecek
    Lee J. Cobb
    Lee J. Cobb
    • Brian Kelly
    Helen Walker
    Helen Walker
    • Laura McNeal
    Betty Garde
    Betty Garde
    • Wanda Skutnik
    Kasia Orzazewski
    Kasia Orzazewski
    • Tillie Wiecek
    Joanne De Bergh
    • Helen Wiecek
    • (as Joanne de Bergh)
    Howard Smith
    Howard Smith
    • K.L. Palmer
    Moroni Olsen
    Moroni Olsen
    • Parole Board Chairman
    John McIntire
    John McIntire
    • Sam Faxon
    Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey
    • Martin Burns
    Robert Adler
    Robert Adler
    • Taxicab Driver
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Bishop
    • Warden of Stateville Prison
    • (uncredited)
    Larry J. Blake
    Larry J. Blake
    • Police Photographic Technician
    • (uncredited)
    John Bleifer
    John Bleifer
    • Jan Gruska
    • (uncredited)
    Truman Bradley
    Truman Bradley
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Dollie Caillet
    • Secretary
    • (uncredited)
    Al Capone
    Al Capone
    • Capone
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Henry Hathaway
    • Writers
      • Jerome Cady
      • Jay Dratler
      • Leonard Hoffman
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    Commentaires des utilisateurs139

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    9bkoganbing

    Nailing Down the Facts

    Call Northside 777 has James Stewart patiently trying to nail down enough facts to get Richard Conte a pardon from a murder for which he was falsely convicted. The tale is told in the documentary style that Henry Hathaway developed post World War II and that Darryl F. Zanuck used in several 20th Century Fox films.

    On orders from editor Lee J. Cobb, Stewart checks out the source behind a small personal advertisement in the Chicago Sun-Times where he works. The ad is placed by Richard Conte's mother who works as a cleaning woman and saved enough money to offer a reward of $5000.00 for information clearing her son.

    Back during the last days of Prohibition, Conte and another man were sent up for killing a Chicago policeman in a grocery store that fronted for a speakeasy. Conte was convicted mainly on the eyewitness testimony of the owner of the establishment Betty Garde.

    Stewart gradually comes to believe in Conte's innocence and works tirelessly on his behalf. The best single performance in this film is by Betty Garde. A real portrait in evil that one is.

    This has always been a film I've had an identity with. I had a similar situation in my former job with NYS Crime Victims Board. I had a case where a man sustained multiple injuries including the loss of a leg when a car drove up on a sidewalk and hit him. The report was never written up as any kind of crime, just an accident. The driver was given a summons and that was that.

    I did a lot of work to prove the police were wrong in their action and it took two years, but I gathered enough evidence and my claimant was declared a crime victim and received the benefits from my former agency. The perpetrator was never charged with anything, but that was not in my mandate. Nevertheless I know exactly what Jimmy Stewart had to prove and how hard it is. The police even more than most of us do not like to admit they are wrong.

    Call Northside 777 is a nicely done documentary style feature which is a great lesson in what a man with determination can accomplish.
    Maestro-15

    Reliable Jimmy Stewart fighting for a cause

    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.
    8AlsExGal

    A great newspaper caper noir

    According to the narration and prologue, this was based on a true story. The film depicts the 1932 murder of a police officer in a speakeasy in Chicago. In 1933, two men were given life sentences for the murder. The action of Call Northside 777 starts out eleven years later, in 1944. Lee J. Cobb, editor of the Chicago Times, comes across a small ad in the classifieds offering $5,000 to whomever can offer information regarding the murderer of the police officer in 1932. Anyone with information is urged to call Northside 777. Cobb is intrigued that someone would be offering so much money for an eleven year old, solved murder, and why it is in such an inconspicuous ad? He has a hunch that there is a story in there and he assigns lead reporter, James Stewart, to the case.

    Stewart is at first uninterested but as he thinks out loud and asks questions, Cobb urges him to investigate and see what he can come up with. Stewart starts with meeting the owner of the classifieds ad, who turns out to be the mother of one of the men put in prison for the murder. She is adamant that her son is innocent, and has scrubbed floors since his imprisonment to save up the reward money and pay for the ad.

    As Stewart interviews more people investigated in the case, and reviews more news stories and documents related to the case, he realizes that the man in jail for this crime may really be innocent. Noir mainstay Richard Conte stars as the (allegedly) wrong-fully convicted man. Helen Walker has a small but effective role as Stewart's devoted wife whom he confides in when he's trying to figure out the case. They also work on a jigsaw puzzle together throughout the film, which very skillfully acts as a metaphor for what Stewart is trying to do in his work life.

    Betty Garde plays the eyewitness whose inconsistent ability to pick out the murderer in the lineup comes into question by Stewart. She is very bitter and uncooperative towards Stewart, and obviously afraid of something or someone unnamed, so he's forced to undermine her credibility and go without her assistance in clearing the man whom he feels was wrongfully convicted.

    I thought Stewart was excellent in his role as the everyday man whose work could affect the lives of many people associated with the case. Lee J. Cobb was authentic in the role of Stewart's boss who urges him to keep going in his investigation. I do get the sense though that Cobb is just trying to increase readership in the newspaper, and that he couldn't care less about Conte's character. But Stewart is the one with a little more humanity who is more about solving the crime than increasing readership of his newspaper.

    One thing I thought was interesting about this film was that the man who administers the lie detector test to Conte is the actual inventor of the lie detector test.
    Lechuguilla

    Solid Cinematic Effort

    Based on a true story, "Call Northside 777" follows P.J. McNeal, a newspaper reporter played by James Stewart, as he investigates a decade old murder case. The setting is Chicago in the 1930s and 40s.

    Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) has been convicted of a cop killing and sentenced to 99 years in prison. Convinced of her son's innocence, Frank's mother, an elderly and lowly cleaning lady, takes out an ad in the newspaper for information that will help free her son. McNeal grudgingly looks into the case, but doubts Wiecek's innocence. As the film moves along, McNeal slowly changes his perception of Wiecek.

    Some viewers consider this to be a film-noir. To me, it is more of a docudrama, a staging of a real life story. The dialogue seems realistic. And the acting is low-key and credible. The film also highlights the technology of the era, including the use of the printing press, the polygraph, and a miniature camera.

    But what impressed me most was the use of the Chicago locations where the real life story took place. Further, the B&W visuals are appropriately drab, dreary, and depressing, which reflects the tone of the actual events. There's very little background music, which also adds authenticity to the film. The only downside is the matter-of-fact procedural style in which the story is told, especially relative to the fatherly VO narration at the film's beginning and end. The film comes across at times as dry, and lacking emotional depth.

    Devoid of cinematic hype, and told in a straightforward and plodding manner, "Call Northside 777" will appeal to people who seek realism in films. And, of course, the film's basis in fact, vis-a-vis fiction, adds to its credibility.
    8hitchcockthelegend

    This is a true story......

    When a patrol cop is shot and killed, small time crook Frank Wiecek is tried for the crime and promptly sentenced to life imprisonment. Some 11 years on, tough cookie reporter P.J. McNeal gets involved with the case, the further he delves, the more he believes that Wiecek is innocent, but can he find evidence to back up his belief?

    Filmed in semi-documentary style by director Henry Hathaway, this James Stewart led noir thriller oozes realism from start to finish. It's actually the lack of gloss and glamour that is the film's trump card. Based on the real story of the Joe Majczek case in 1933, it's filmed perfectly on location in Chicago {where the actual events happened}, gloriously mood emphasised by Joe MacDonald's superb black & white cinematography, and scored with tonal adroitness by Alfred Newman. As intrepid Chicago Times reporter McNeal {based on real reporter Jim McGuire who was a Pulitzer Prize winner for his investigative efforts on this case}, James Stewart lays down a marker for the more edgier character roles that would follow for him in the 50s. Here he plays it perfect as McNeal shifts from mere cynical newsman to an outright crusader of justice; and it's riding along with McNeal that this human interest piece lifts itself to great crime thriller heights. Along the way we find problems are encountered and police procedural techniques are scrutinised. All may not be as it first seemed, and this mysterious element ices what was already a delightful docu-drama based cake.

    There is not much else to say, it's a film I personally highly recommend, a fascinating story that is given top care and attention from all involved, mean, moody and yes, magnificent. 8/10

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    • Anecdotes
      The 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.
    • Gaffes
      When McNeal is interviewing Helen Wiecek Rayska, prior to the arrival home of Mr. Rayska, Helen indicates that she only divorced Frank Wiecek AFTER Mr. Rayska had met and began loving her and her son, Frank Jr. However, when Mr. Rayska and Frank Jr. arrive home after that point in the interview, Mr. Rayska tells McNeal with certainty that he never even met Helen and Frank Jr. until after the divorce was finalized, and that he could provide proof of that.

      Frank's ex-wife says that Frank asked her to divorce him for over a year. In the next sentence she says then she met her new husband which can be interpreted as after she finally acted and got the divorce. Her story and her new husband's agree.
    • Citations

      [McNeal is trying to get Zaleska to name his real partner in the crime and get a chance at parole]

      P.J. McNeal: What have you got to lose? You're in for life now. C'mon, tell us the truth.

      Tomek Zaleska: Sure, I could say I did it. Then maybe have a chance of getting out, like you say. But if I confessed, who would I name as my partner, Joe Doakes? I couldn't make it stick for one minute. That's the trouble with being innocent. You don't know what really happened. I didn't do it. Me and Frank had nothin' to do with it.

    • Générique farfelu
      Opening credits are printed on the pages of a book; it is also stated that this is a true story.
    • Connexions
      Edited from In Old Chicago (1938)
    • Bandes originales
      Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)
      (1922) (uncredited)

      Music by Fred Fisher

      Played during the Prohibition montage

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    • Date de sortie
      • mars 1948 (United States)
    • Pays d’origine
      • United States
    • Langues
      • English
      • Polish
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Yo creo en ti
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Stateville Correctional Center - 16830 South Broadway Street, Joliet, Illinois, États-Unis(Illinois State Penitentiary: panopticon & cells interiors; entrance exteriors)
    • société de production
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Durée
      1 heure 52 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.33 : 1

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