Jerome Cady Jay Dratler Leonard Hoffman (adaptation) Quentin Reynolds (adaptation)
Based on
1944 Chicago Daily Times articles by James P. McGuire Jack McPhaul -- writer
Produced by
Otto Lang
Starring
James Stewart Richard Conte Lee J. Cobb Helen Walker
Narrated by
Truman Bradley
Cinematography
Joseph MacDonald
Edited by
J. Watson Webb Jr.
Music by
Alfred Newman
Distributed by
20th Century-Fox
Release date
February 1948 (1948-02)
Running time
111 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$2.7 million (US rentals)[1]
Call Northside 777 is a 1948 reality-based newspaper American drama film directed by Henry Hathaway. 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.
^"Top Grossers of 1948", Variety 5 January 1949 p 46
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