Call Northside 777
Crime
Drama
It couldn't happen... but it did!
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
1948-02-13
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Cast
Director
Henry Hathaway
James Stewart as P.J. 'Jim' McNeal
Richard Conte as Frank W. 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 Parole Board Chairman
John McIntire as Sam Faxon
Paul Harvey as Martin J. Burns
Robert Adler as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Truman Bradley as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Michael Chapin as Frank Wiecek Jr. (uncredited)
Jimmy Dime as Poker Player (uncredited)
Rex Downing as Copy Boy (uncredited)
Helen Foster as Secretary (uncredited)
Jonathan Hale as Governor's Aide Robert Winston (uncredited)
Percy Helton as Mailman William Decker (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds as Judge Charles Moulton (uncredited)
Charles Lane as Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
E.G. Marshall as Rayska (uncredited)
Addison Richards as State Commissioner John Albertson (uncredited)
Lionel Stander as Wiecek's Cellmate Corrigan (uncredited)
Otto Waldis as Boris Siskovich (uncredited)
Wanda Perry as Chicago Times Telophone Reporter (uncredited)
Larry J. Blake as Police Photographic Technician (uncredited)
John Bleifer as Jan Gruska (uncredited)
Al Capone as Capone (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Cisar as Policeman (uncredited)
John Dillinger as Dillinger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn as Patrolman John W. Bundy (uncredited)
Joseph Forte as Parole Board Member (uncredited)
Walter Greaza as Police Capt. Norris (uncredited)
Robert Karnes as Pete (uncredited)
Cy Kendall as Second Bartender (uncredited)
J.M. Kerrigan as Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Paul Kruger as Detective (uncredited)
Henry Kulky as First Bartender (uncredited)
George Melford as Parole Board Member (uncredited)
George Pembroke as Policeman (uncredited)
Arthur Peterson as Keeler's Polygraph Assistant (uncredited)
William Post Jr. as Sixth Precinct Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Thelma Ritter as Captain's Secretary (uncredited)
Richard Rober as Sgt. Larson (uncredited)
Lester Sharpe as Illinois State Journal Technician (uncredited)
Ray Spiker as Barfly (uncredited)
Freddie Steele as Holdup Man (uncredited)
George Turner as Holdup Man (uncredited)
George Tyne as Tomek Zaleska (uncredited)
Robert B. Williams as Illinois State Journal Technician
Edward Peil Jr. as Bartender (uncredited)