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Chicago Calling(1951)

$53 means life or death to him!
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ReleasedDrama,Thriller1h 15m

Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been injured in a car accident outside Chicago. His wife will call later with news, but Bill’s short the $53 he needs to keep his phone from being disconnected. Filled with anguish, he heads out onto the Los Angeles streets to find some way to come up with the cash. As his character encounters expected cruelty and unexpected kindness, Duryea takes what might have been mere melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul. The other fine star of this race-against-the-clock programmer is an unglamorous, lunch-bucket L.A. rarely captured on film.

Budget:

$ 0

Directed by:

John Reinhardt

Written by:

John ReinhardtPeter Berneis

Cast

Dan Duryea thumbnail

Dan Duryea

Bill Cannon

Mary Anderson thumbnail

Mary Anderson

Mary Cannon

Gordon Gebert thumbnail

Gordon Gebert

Bobby

Ross Elliott thumbnail

Ross Elliott

Jim

Melinda Casey thumbnail

Melinda Casey

Nancy Cannon

Judy Brubaker thumbnail

Judy Brubaker

Babs Kimball

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