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4 days ago · Call Northside 777 was a critically acclaimed film noir, while the musical comedy On Our Merry Way, in which Stewart and Henry Fonda played jazz musicians in an ensemble cast, was a critical and commercial failure.
Jun 30, 2024 · It turns out that Fonda was originally cast but wound up doing Daisy Kenyon with Joan Crawford instead. The main attraction was director Otto Preminger. Fonda missed out on a better movie, but Otto was as hot as a firecracker at that point. 1948’s Call Northside 777 tells the story of a man unjustly convicted of murder near the end of ...
Jul 1, 2024 · She was born Gretchen Kunigk in Tacoma in 1919. Her mother was an avid skier, who was instrumental in opening public skiing on Mt. Rainier. Gretchen was on the ski slopes as soon as she could stand. At age 16 she became a student of the famous Otto Lang, a film producer later known for “Call Northside 777” starring James Stewart, and “5 ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Richard Conte has a show-stopping lie detector scene—the way it’s edited, Conte’s heaving chest with an attached head that can’t wait to speak innocence. The entire picture runs on a smooth professionalism that might not GRAB the audience but will slowly sink them into Stewart’s world of investigative Chicago reporters and questions of guilt and innocence. It ends with another ...
Jun 22, 2024 · Call Northside 777 (1948 Henry Hathaway) An attempt to tell a true story using the actual locations wherever possible (the curved prison cells structure being one of the most interesting) gives the film a unique feeling and must have given Joe Macdonald some interesting lighting challenges. There's no music either. James Stewart really does not ...
4 days ago · Crawdaddy. This weekend's "Noir Alley" movie is "The Locket" (1946) starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum and Gene Raymond. Directed by John Brahm. This is a repeat title with perhaps Day's best acting performance and Mitchum in a role in which he plays the "sap" again to another beautiful woman.
6 days ago · An epic historical drama chronicling the plight of the Cheyenne tribe forced to leave their reservation in Oklahoma for their ancestral homeland in Wyoming; Stewart plays Wyatt Earp in a supporting role that showcases his ability to convey quiet authority amidst an ensemble cast of talented actors while contributing significantly to the film's emotional impact.
