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Chicago Calling (1951)
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.
Updated May 20 2020
Cast
Mary Anderson
Mary Cannon
Marcia Mae Jones
Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
Gordon Gebert
Bobby
Roy Engel
Pete
Ross Elliott
Jim
Judy Brubaker
Babs Kimball
Marsha Jones
Peggy
Crew
Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer
Robert De Grasse
Director of Photography
Peter Berneis
Writer
Peter Berneis
Producer
John Reinhardt
Director
John Reinhardt
Writer
