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Based on a real life Story. This is one Movie that you don’t want to miss. Check it out. Pop some Popcorn and Enjoy!

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In 1932, Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) is convicted of the murder of a Chicago policeman in a mob-connected speakeasy. Eleven years later, his mother, Tillie (Kasia Orzazewski), takes out a newspaper classified ad asking for information about the crime. Hard-bitten city editor Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb) assigns skeptical reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to investigate. The first studio feature ever shot on location in Chicago, the film is based on a true story.

Release date: February 1, 1948 (USA)

Director: Henry Hathaway

Box office: $2.7 million (US rentals)

Based on: 1944 Chicago Daily Times articles; by James P. McGuire; Jack McPhaul — writerNarrated by: Truman Bradley

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Northside_777

Call Northside 777 is a 1948 reality-based newspaper drama 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.

Call Northside 777
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Henry Hathaway
Screenplay by	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	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date	March 1948
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.7 million (US rentals)[1]

Plot

James Stewart in Call Northside 777 (1948)

In Chicago in 1932, during Prohibition, a policeman is murdered inside a speakeasy. Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) and another man are quickly arrested, and are later sentenced to serve 99 years imprisonment each for the killing. Eleven years later, Wiecek’s mother (Kasia Orzazewski) puts an ad in the newspaper offering a $5,000 reward for information about the true killers of the police officer.

This leads the city editor of the Chicago Times, Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb), to assign reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to look more closely into the case. McNeal is skeptical at first, believing Wiecek to be guilty. But he starts to change his mind, and meets increased resistance from the police and the state attorney’s office, who are unwilling to be proved wrong. This is quickly followed by political pressure from the state capital, where politicians are anxious to end a story that might prove embarrassing to the administration. Eventually, Wiecek is proved innocent by, among other things, the enlarging of a photograph showing the date on a newspaper that proves that a key witness statement was false. In actuality, innocence was determined not as claimed in the film but when it was found out that the prosecution had suppressed the fact that the main witness had initially declared that she could not identify the two men involved in the police shooting.^[2]