Call Northside 777 James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb

Call Northside 777 James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb

Call Northside 777 is a 1948 reality-based FILM NOlR newspaper docu-drama directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars James Stewart, Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb. The film parallels the true story of a Chicago reporter who proved that a man jailed for murder was wrongly convicted 11 years before. James Stewart stars as the persistent journalist and Richard Conte plays the imprisoned Frank Wiecek. Wiecek is based on Joseph Majczek, who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a Chicago policeman in 1932, one of the worst years of organized crime during Prohibition. You can find out more about this movie from Wikipedia and there is also a review from the movie blog D for Doom .

https://archive.org/details/call-northside-777-1948-720p · Public domain (Internet Archive)