Call Northside 777

Henry Hathaway’s seminal crime movie is celebrated for its gritty, documentary feel – a quality that’s its easy to underestimate these days, when such techniques are c... more >

Henry Hathaway’s seminal crime movie is celebrated for its gritty, documentary feel – a quality that’s its easy to underestimate these days, when such techniques are commonplace. But such is Hathaway's quietly assured, undemonstrative skill that the film still exerts a powerful grip. Hathaway reconstructs a true story with a realism and attention to police procedure. Reporter P J McNeal (James Stewart) is asked to investigate the wrongful imprisonment of a man charged with the murder of a policeman 11 years. Stories of police corruption were new in the era of Call Northside 777, and it remains a cogent piece of work. < less

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• Newly remastered.

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Cast

James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb

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