Check
- Mark movie as favorite
- Dislike this movie
- Add movie to watchlist
- Mark movie as owned
- Check movie
- View the official lists that include Call Northside 777
- Visit IMDb page
Call Northside 777 (1948)'s comments
Order by:
- Info
- In lists (135)
- Comments (8)
- Friends
- Activity
- Checks (1145)
- Favorites (54)
Add your comment
Comments 1 - 8 of 8
Jumping Elephant
"That's the trouble with being innocent. You never know what really happened."frodon
Great movie, which deserves a bigger audience...Worzel
Noir? Oh oui. There's enough camera angles of shady flophouses, but apart from that a key point of the plot is almost cyberpunk...mathiasa
not very noir in my book.Siskoid
I feel like I'm always saying this, but I'm not a huge fan of modern biopics/true stories unless they also showcase great film making in some way. There's just such a formula to them that drains my interest. In the case of Call Northside 777, it's a slightly different formula, but so old-fashioned as to create the same effect. Based on the Chicago Times' fight to release a man languishing in prison for a crime he claims he didn't commit, it has a narrator that keeps intruding to give us facts (in ADDITION to an opening scroll), which pulls me right out of the mood established by Jimmy Stewart as the hard-to-convince, no-nonsense reporter assigned the story. I'm also not quite sure the "final proof" (despite my interest in the "cutting edge technology" shown) is that percussive. Ultimately, this docu-drama noir was already too long to really pay off some of its more intriguing elements, like why Stewart's editor (Lee J. Cobb) was so interested in the case. It seemed about more than just selling newspapers, or perhaps Cobb is just too interesting a presence for us not to wonder.DisneyStitch
"not very noir in my book." - mathiasaI second that emotion. Compared to the great Noir films it barely even registers. Stewart does what he can with a lackluster script but the pace kind of dooms the film.
steamRobot
Rather dull, no sense of suspense or menace, almost like it didn't wish to offend anyone involved, it being based on a true story and all. The line at the end specifically tries to whitewash the whole affair for all involved. I'd like to be specific but don't wish to spoil.Limbesdautomne
Remarkable reconstruction of a banal but tragic event. An expeditious justice, a wrong man, a Mother Courage. Mr Smith investigates.Read more in French on La Saveur des goûts amers.