Noir Alley - Call Northside 777 (1948) intro 20240616

Noir Alley - Call Northside 777 (1948) intro 20240616 by Eddie Muller shown on Jun 16, 2024
From TCM's Noir Alley (Saturdays at Midnight ET and Sunday 10am ET) hosted by the Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller.

[@erickjrmaldonadoherrera4531]

I'm glad that noir alley showed call Northside 777.. great noir film very different and not your typical noir film where it's based on a true story and in noir its usually Always a police detective or a federal officer/special agent who is a fbi or treasury agent as well the private eye solves the case but in in this one is where the journalist is the private eye detective who's sloving this case.. so great noir film which happened in real life..

[@ameryek.9607]

"Semi-documentaries" - never heard that one before! Well, it's a really good film. Richard Conti is too much the perfect saint; the explanation of the actual culprits goes by pretty fast. But J Stewart so believable & warm. Sometimes he overacts the tiniest bit but he's under control here. So his role was originally for Henry Fonda? As it's Father's Day, I'll mention that my dad was a ringer for Mr. Fonda in every way - height, face, hair, similar voice. I know what you're thinking - do I look like Jane Fonda? Nah!

[@HansDelbruck53]

The ending of Call Northside 777 left something to be desired as only one of the two guys convicted of the crime was exonerated.

[@Remmy-iq3bs]

Been on so much. Definitely not the best newspaper pic of all time Conte saved it. Eddie gave us info we already know. He hasn’t been playing the best films lately. Thanks for these though

[@MM-qm9ld]

These kind tend to be my least favorite type of classic noir. Mostly for the superfluous narration that tells you what youre already seeing on screen but in a way that dumbs down the experience. It has more of this uptight feel like its told by some bootlicker, like its moralized for a third grader, etc. It makes these films feel more dated with that style of presentation, which roots it in some kind of uppity sentiment thats unbecoming for the themes noir would often be associated with. T-Men is another with the overbearing narration. These films feel ironically like the thought police version of consuming art, where the long dick of the law probes your brain with the decency of a soup laddle, rationing off any thoughtfulness one might have, making sure you dont construe what youre about to see any way other than the one TRUE way.