Call Northside 777

Year: 1948

Grade: B+

Country: USA

Director: Hathaway

Review

watched again, this time with commentary. same guys who did the commentary for call panic in the streets did the commentary here and they talk about a lot of the same things. they talk about the docu-noir/docu-drama genre – its trademarks, seminal films and influences. they rightly point out the film’s central placement of technology – from the lie detector, to the mini-camera, to the primitive photo-fax machine the film is made more believable and interesting through its use of these (at the time) novel technologies.