Call Northside 777

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Call Northside 777 is a 1948 American film noir crime drama, inspired by a true story, about a journalist’s investigation to prove a man’s wrongful conviction.

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instanceOf crime drama film
film
film noir
basedOn true story
blackAndWhite true
cinematographyBy Joseph MacDonald
countryOfOrigin United States
director Henry Hathaway
distributor 20th Century Fox
editedBy Harmon Jones
era Golden Age of Hollywood
filmFormat black-and-white feature film
genre crime drama
film noir
legal drama
hasFilmRating Approved (Production Code Administration)
hasWikipediaPage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Northside_777
language English
leadActorForCharacter P. J. McNeal James Stewart
leadCharacter P. J. McNeal
mainSubject investigative journalism
wrongful conviction
musicBy Alfred Newman
narrativeFocus journalist investigates to clear a convicted man
notableFor semi-documentary style
use of on-location shooting in Chicago
originalLanguage English
partOf American film noir canon
portrays newspaper investigation into a 1932 murder case
producer Otto Lang
productionCompany 20th Century Fox
releaseDate 1948-02-13
releaseYear 1948
runtimeMinutes 111
screenwriter Jay Dratler
Jerome Cady
Leonard Hoffman
setInPeriod 1930s
1940s
setting Chicago
starring Betty Garde
Helen Walker
James Stewart
Joanne De Bergh
Lee J. Cobb
Richard Conte

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Jay Dratler notableWork Call Northside 777
Joseph MacDonald notableWork Call Northside 777
Louis de Rochemont workedOn Call Northside 777
Henry Hathaway notableWork Call Northside 777