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James Stewart | P.J. 'Jim' McNeal | |
Lee J. Cobb | Brian Kelly | |
Richard Conte | Frank W. Wiecek | |
Helen Walker | Laura McNeal | |
Betty Garde | Wanda Skutnik | |
Kasia Orzazewski | Tillie Wiecek | |
Joanne De Bergh | Helen Wiecek | |
Howard Smith | K.L. Palmer | |
Moroni Olsen | Parole Board Chairman | |
John McIntire | Sam Faxon | |
Paul Harvey | Martin J. Burns | |
Robert Adler | Taxicab Driver | |
Richard Bishop | Warden of Stateville Prison | |
Larry J. Blake | Police Photographic Technician | |
John Bleifer | Jan Gruska |
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Producer | Otto Lang
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Writer | Jerome Cady
Jay Dratler |
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Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald
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Musician | Alfred Newman
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Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and moral conflict. When a classified ad grabs the attention of Chicago Times editor Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb), he sends ace reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to dig up new evidence in the 11-year-old case of a cop killer: It appears that Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) has taken a fall, and been wrongly imprisoned for the murder. Although hard-nosed McNeal is initially skeptical, he eventually believes that Wiecek was, in fact, a patsy. And although McNeal hits one dead end after another, the avid newsman never gives up the search for justice for the innocent Wiecek. |
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