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The last scene of Call Northside 777
is a vision of the arrival of
a tired man to Heaven.

His mother is there to greet him,
his wife,

And when the kid shouts, "That's my daddy!"
before running to meet him,
well...

Having grown up in Illinois,
I find no small amount of comfort
in the fact that the man is being released
from an Illinois prison...

I will never forget the last time I saw the street I grew up on; the vision of my

Mother, standing in the road, watching me disappear over the hill for the very last time. I looked at her in the rearview mirror, until the hill blocked the view and we were gone...

Even if I never see the place again.

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