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Chicago Calling

Chicago Calling

# $53 means life or death to him!
Drama   Thriller
📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available: German , English
📆 Date Released: 1951-12-31
⌚ Running Time: 75 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.0

Beloved Cast

Dan Duryea original image
Bill Cannon
Dan Duryea
Mary Anderson original image
Mary Cannon
Mary Anderson
Gordon Gebert original image
Bobby
Gordon Gebert
Ross Elliott original image
Jim
Ross Elliott
Melinda Casey original image
Nancy Cannon
Melinda Casey
Judy Brubaker original image
Babs Kimball
Judy Brubaker
Marcia Mae Jones original image
Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
Marcia Mae Jones
Marsha Jones original image
Peggy
Marsha Jones
Roy Engel original image
Pete
Roy Engel
Jean Harvey original image
Christine
Jean Harvey
Steve Pendleton original image
Police Lt. Ryan
Steve Pendleton
Gene Roth original image
Guard
Gene Roth

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