Call Northside 777 

(1948)

Classic / Drama / Film Noir

110 minutes

Directed by Henry Hathaway

Cast:

James Stewart as Newspaper Reporter P.J. McNeal
Richard Conte as Frank Wiecek
Lee J. Cobb as Brian Kelly
Helen Walker as Laura McNeal
Betty Garde as Wanda Skutnik
Kasia Orzazewski as Tillie Wiecek
Joanne De Bergh as Helen Wiecek
Howard Smith as K.L. Palmer
Moroni Olsen as Pardon Board Chairman
J.M. Kerrigan as Sullivan
John McIntire as Sam Faxon 
Paul Harvey as Martin J. Burns
George Tyne as Tomek Zaleska
Michael Chapin as Frank Wiecek Jr.
Leonarde Keeler as Himself, Polygraph Examiner and the actual inventor of the Polygraph
E.G. Marshall as Rayska
Walter Greaza as Detective
Thelma Ritter as Receptionist  
Lionel Stander as Corrigan 

Frank Wiecek is sentenced to life in prison in 1932 for supposedly killing a cop. P.J. O’Neal is a Chicago newspaper reporter who takes notice of a newspaper ad by Frank's mother and begins to look into the case. He has always believed Wiecek to be guilty but begins to change his mind when the authorities are unwilling to provide information.