Very best movie i ever watch

Sadly Over-hyped

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Call Northside 777 (1948), directed by Henry Hathaway, with James Stewart, Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb as the stars (although all are outshone by Kasia Orzazweski in the first and most impressive of eight movie appearances), is an unusual film noir in that the lead character in this true-life reconstruction of crime and imprisonment is neither the alleged criminal nor the investigator but the killer's mother, who is handed the script's best lines and its most powerful scenes.The sequence in which out-for-a-story-and-nothing-else reporter James Stewart (who has previously raised her hopes) callously turns down the mother's pleas for help, is one of the most unforgettable moments in the whole history of world cinema.Brilliantly directed by Henry Hathaway, Call Northside 777 is one of those rare movies that really pack a punch.

No nonsense crime docudrama, based on a true story, about a reporter (James Stewart) working to find evidence to free a man wrongly convicted of killing a police officer eleven years before. Not quite a film noir as I would describe it but it nonetheless is stuck with that label. It's really good no matter what genre it belongs in. Jimmy Stewart is excellent as the initially cynical reporter who comes around to believing an injustice has been done. You simply can't go wrong with Stewart in any movie, at least as far as I've seen. Sympathetic turn from Richard Conte as the innocent convict. Lee J. Cobb is great, as always. Polygraph expert Leonard Keeler appears as himself. Normal people trying to be actors in old movies always amuses me for some reason. It's a gripping movie, well directed by Henry Hathaway, that moves along at a relatively slow pace but keeps you invested. One note is that the case this is based on was actually about two guys wrongfully convicted. This movie focuses mainly on one of them and only features the other in a brief scene. I assume this was because the other guy wasn't exonerated until two years after this movie was released.

Henry Hathaway directed this film based on a true story about a wrongfully imprisoned man(played by Richard Conte) who was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1932. Eleven years later, his devoted and hard-working mother earned enough money to place a newspaper ad offering a reward to prove her son's innocence. This gets the attention of a big city newspaper editor(played by Lee. J. Cobb) who assigns reporter P.J. McNeal(played by James Stewart) to investigate. Though skeptical, he accepts the assignment, and is surprised to discover himself being convinced of his innocence, and becomes determined to have his conviction overturned. Fine docudrama-like film with solid performances, direction, and compelling story.

Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) re-opens a ten year old murder case.Although I am more familiar than the average person on Chicago's gangland in the 1930s, I had not heard the cases of Joseph Majczek and Theodore Marcinkiewicz. Perhaps because they were Polish and the histories tend to focus on Italians. This is a great tale, as all tales of wrongly-convicted men are.James Stewart never fails, and the film is even better that it features the real Leonard Keeler as himself, the inventor of the polygraph machine.