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Chicago Calling

$53 means life or death to him!

31 Dec 1951
  • United States of America
75 mins
7
2 votes
  • Drama
  • Thriller
articleOverview personCast
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.
  • Dan Duryea

    as Bill Cannon
  • Mary Anderson

    as Mary Cannon
  • Gordon Gebert

    as Bobby
  • Ross Elliott

    as Jim
  • Melinda Casey

    as Nancy Cannon
  • Judy Brubaker

    as Babs Kimball
  • Marcia Mae Jones

    as Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
  • Marsha Jones

    as Peggy
  • Roy Engel

    as Pete
  • Jean Harvey

    as Christine
  • Steve Pendleton

    as Police Lt. Ryan
  • Gene Roth

    as Guard

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