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Call Northside 777  Cover Image Video Video

Call Northside 777 / Twentieth Century-Fox ; produced by Otto Lang ; screenplay by Jerome Cady and Jay Dratler ; adaptation by Leonard Hoffman and Quentin Reynolds ; directed by Henry Hathaway.

Summary:

A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (111 min.) : digital, sound, black & white
  • Publisher: [United States] : 20th Century Fox Film Corp., [1948]
  • Distributor: Vaughan, ON : Criterion-on-Demand, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Based on articles by James P. McGuire.
Originally released as a motion picture by 20th Century Fox Film Corp., 1948.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Access restricted to subscribers.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Director of photography, Joe MacDonald ; editor, J. Watson Webb, Jr. ; music, Alfred Newman.
Participant or Performer Note:
James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
System Details Note:
Content available as downloadable file or streaming video.
Source of Description Note:
Title from distributor's web site (viewed February 1, 2015).
Subject: Investigative reporting > Drama.
False imprisonment > Drama.
Trials (Murder) > Drama.
Genre: Feature films.
Film noir.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Streaming video.


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