Chicago Calling
"$53 means life or death to him!"
Overview
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.
About Chicago Calling (1951)
Released in 1951, Chicago Calling is a drama and thriller film from Arrowhead Pictures (United States of America). It was directed by John Reinhardt and written by John Reinhardt and Peter Berneis. The cast is led by Dan Duryea, Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert, Ross Elliott and Melinda Casey. With a runtime of 1h 15m, the film averages 7.7/10 across 3 TMDB ratings.
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