Call Northside 777
It couldn't happen... but it did!
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Produced by 20th Century Fox
A procedural investigation into institutional injustice and wrongful conviction, driven by a reporter's moral awakening and a mother's desperate faith in her son's innocence.
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. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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