On this day in movie history - Call Northside 777 (1948)

Call Northside 777

directed by Henry Hathaway,

written by Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman and Quentin Reynolds,

was released in the United States on February 13, 1948.

Based on the true 1932 Joseph Majczek case, and articles written by James P. McGuire and Jack McPhaul, published in the Chicago Daily Times in 1944.

Narrated by Truman Bradley.

Music by Alfred Newman.

Cast:

James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde, Kasia Orzazewski, Joanne De Bergh, Howard Smith, Moroni Olsen, John McIntire, Paul Harvey, Robert Adler, Richard Bishop, Larry J. Blake, John Bleifer, Truman Bradley, Dollie Caillet, Michael Chapin, George Cisar, Jane Crowley, Jimmy Dime, Abe Dinovitch, Rex Downing, Eddie Dunn, Lew Eckles, Ben Erway, Joseph Forte, Helen Foster, Stanley Gordon, Walter Greaza, Jonathan Hale, Buck Harrington, Percy Helton, Samuel S. Hinds, Perry Ivins, Robert Karnes, Leonarde Keeler, Cy Kendall, J.M. Kerrigan, Carl Kroenke, Paul Kruger, Henry Kulky, Charles Lane, Philip Lord, Jack Mannick, E.G. Marshall, Norman McKay, George Melford, Charles Miller, Edward Peil Jr., George Pembroke, Wanda Perry, Arthur Peterson, Joe Ploski, William Post Jr., Addison Richards, Thelma Ritter, Richard Rober, Dick Ryan, Peter Seal, Lester Sharpe, George Spaulding, Ray Spiker, Lionel Stander, Ann Staunton, Freddie Steele, George Turner, George Tyne, Bill Vendetta, Otto Waldis, Duke Watson, Robert B. Williams.

On this day in movie and book history - The Exorcist (1973)

The Exorcist

directed by William Friedkin,

written by and based on the novel by William Peter Blatty,

was released in the United States on December 26, 1973.

Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Excerpt from Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.

Cast:

Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Father William O'Malley, Father Thomas Bermingham, Peter Masterson, Robert Symonds, Barton Heyman, Rudolf Schündler, Arthur Storch, Vasiliki Maliaros, Titos Vandis, Dick Callinan, William Peter Blatty, Mercedes McCambridge, Eileen Dietz.

Recommended reading - The Exorcist

The Exorcist: A Novel (1971).

by William Peter Blatty.

Published by Harper Paperbacks

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 006209436X

ISBN-13: 978-0062094360

Description:

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty’s thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

Born on this day – Lee J. Cobb:

Lee J. Cobb

Actor

December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976

Credits:

12 Angry Men (1957); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Alle origini della mafia (1976); American Masters (1989–2003); Anna and the King of Siam (1946); Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970); Arthur Miller on Home Ground (1979); Bad Men of the West (1974); Blood, Sweat and Fear (1975); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Boomerang! (1947); Buckskin Frontier (1943); But Not for Me (1959); Call Northside 777 (1948); Captain from Castile (1947); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Come Blow Your Horn (1963); Compression (2024); Coogan's Bluff (1968); Danger on the Air (1938); Day of Triumph (1954); Death of a Salesman (1966); Double Indemnity (1973); Dr. Max (1974); Exodus (1960); Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane (1944); Frontier Justice (1958); General Electric Theater (1960–1962); Golden Boy (1939); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Gorilla at Large (1954); Green Mansions (1959); Gunsmoke (1974); Heat of Anger (1972); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); Hopalong Cassidy: Public Hero #1 (2001); How the West Was Won (1962); In Like Flint (1967); Incendiary Attack for Japanese Cities (1945); Inside the Jury Room (2008); Johnny O'Clock (1947); La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine (1976); La polizia sta a guardare (1973); Last Moments (1974); Lawman (1971); Lights Out (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Macho Callahan (1970); Mackenna's Gold (1969); Mafia (1968); Man of the West (1958); Mark il poliziotto spara per primo (1975); McCloud (1973); Medic (1955); Men of Boys Town (1941); Miami Exposé (1956); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Naked City (1961); Nick the Sting (1976); North of the Rio Grande (1937); On the Waterfront (1954); Our Man Flint (1966); Paris Calling (1941); Party Girl (1958); Playhouse 90 (1957–1959); Producers' Showcase (1955); Role Model: Gene Wilder (2008); Rustlers' Valley (1937); Sirocco (1951); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1951); Startime (1960); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Studio One (1957); Suddenly an Eagle (1976); Tales of Tomorrow (1951); That Lucky Touch (1975); The 12th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1960); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Brazen Bell (1962); The Brothers Karamazov (1958); The Bull of the West (1972); The Dark Past (1948); The Dean Martin Show (1970); The Devil's Children (1962); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959–1960); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1961); The Exorcist (1973); The Family Secret (1951); The Fighter (1952); The Final Hour (1965); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Great Ice Rip-Off (1974); The Left Hand of God (1955); The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Luck of the Irish (1948); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950); The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Miracle of the Bells (1948); The Moon Is Down (1943); The Phantom Creeps (1939 / 1949); The Racers (1955); The Road to Denver (1955); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Tall Texan (1953); The Three Faces of Eve (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964); The Trap (1959); The Vanishing Shadow (1934); The Virginian (1962–1966); The Young Lawyers (1970–1971); They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968); Thieves' Highway (1949); This Thing Called Love (1940); To Confuse the Angel (1970); Tonight We Raid Calais (1943); Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974); Ultimatum (1973); Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (1961); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Winged Victory (1944); Yankee Pasha (1954); Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1958).

On this day in movie history - They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

directed by Antonio Isasi,

written by Antonio Isasi, Lluis Josep Comeron, Jorge Illa and Jo Eisinger,

based on the novel by André Lay,

was released in Spain on October 31, 1968.

Music by Georges Garvarentz.

Cast:

Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Servais, Georges Géret, Jack Palance, Fabrizio Capucci, Roger Hanin, Gustavo Re, Daniel Martín, Maurizio Arena, Enrique Ávila, Gérard Tichy, Rubén Rojo, Ingrid Spaey, Carlos Ballesteros, Luis Barboo, Rossella Bergamonti, Antonio Casas, Beni Deus, Fernando Hilbeck, José Marco, Julio Pérez Tabernero, George Rigaud, Lorenzo Robledo.