Call Northside 777
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Oct 13, 2026
RobertHOST
It has some accolades, though.
RobertHOST
At the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which I didn't know was a thing, it was nominated for Best Motion Picture, but it lost to Call Northside 777.
RobertHOST
What? That sounds more like a Hitchcock.
RobertHOST
Yeah, it does.
RobertHOST
And clearly, Call Northside 777 has stood the test of time because I hear about it almost every day.
RobertHOST
Sarcasm.
ChrisHOST
I have heard of Edgar Allan Poe Awards.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
The ad was placed by the mother of an imprisoned man who has spent years saving the reward money while maintaining that her son was wrongly convicted.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
On December 9th, 1949, NBC presented Screen Directors Playhouse episode 46, Call Northside 777, adapted from the 1948 20th Century Fox film.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
James Stewart reprises his film role with William Conrad, Stacy Harris, Peggy Webber, and Paul Frees in the cast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Henry Hathaway, director of the film, introduces the broadcast.
Jimmy WallingtonNARRATOR
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Screen Directors Playhouse, star Jimmy Stewart.
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Production, Call Northside 777.
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Director, Henry Hathaway.
Doug HopkinsonNARRATOR
Years later, he delivered a speech before Congress protesting the film's colorization.
Doug HopkinsonNARRATOR
Finding post-war audiences no longer wanting sentiment, in 1948 Stewart changed his image, turning hard-bitten for Call Northside 777 and working for Hitchcock in the film Rope.
Doug HopkinsonNARRATOR
He returned to Broadway to replace Frank Fay in The Whimsical Harvey, and before filming the 1950 movie version, made the first two westerns of his career, both of which were hugely popular.
Doug HopkinsonNARRATOR
Stewart also turned in a heart-tugging performance as a clown in Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth in 1952.