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Chicago Calling (1951)

ALL 12/31/1951 (en) Drama, Thriller 75 Min
  • Release
    12/31/1951
  • Production
    Arrowhead Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    Chicago Calling
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

$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.

  1. John Reinhardt

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Peter Berneis

    Producer



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  1. Dan Duryea

    Bill Cannon

  2. Mary Anderson

    Mary Cannon

  3. Gordon Gebert

    Bobby

  4. Ross Elliott

    Jim

  5. Melinda Casey

    Nancy Cannon

  6. Judy Brubaker

    Babs Kimball

  7. Marcia Mae Jones

    Peggy (as Marsha Jones)

  8. Marsha Jones

    Peggy

  9. Roy Engel

    Pete

  10. Jean Harvey

    Christine

  11. Steve Pendleton

    Police Lt. Ryan

  12. Gene Roth

    Guard

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 12 , Crews : 7

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Chicago Calling (1951) 75 Min

ALL 12/31/1951 (en)
Drama, Thriller
  • Release 12/31/1951
  • Production
    Arrowhead Pictures
  • Original title Chicago Calling
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

$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.

  1. John Reinhardt

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Arthur H. Nadel

    Editor

  4. Peter Berneis

    Producer



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