Chicago Calling (1951)
1h 15m
Running Time
December 31, 1951Release Date
Chicago Calling (1951)
1h 15m
Running Time
December 31, 1951Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Dan Duryea
Bill Cannon
Mary Anderson
Mary Cannon
Gordon Gebert
Bobby
Ross Elliott
Jim
Melinda Casey
Nancy Cannon
Judy Brubaker
Babs Kimball
Marcia Mae Jones
Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
Marsha Jones
Peggy
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Chicago Calling is a 1951 drama film directed by John Reinhardt and starring Dan Duryea and Mary Anderson.
The film centers on the unsuccessful drinking photographer Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea), whose wife abandons him, leaving with their daughter to another city. When the two get into a car accident along the way, Bill desperately seeks for money to call to Chicago to find out about their fate. Having met an unfortunate single boy in the process, Bill gets so close with him that, after learning about his daughter's death, he starts calling the boy his son.
Noting the weaknesses in the plot, critics nevertheless noted that the film is still good thanks to the strong play of Duryea.
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