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Chicago Calling (1951)
Directed by John Reinhardt
“$53 means life or death to him!”
Drama, Thriller · 1h 15m
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.
Cast
Dan Duryea
Mary Anderson
Ross Elliott
Melinda Casey
Marcia Mae Jones
Roy Engel
Steve Pendleton
Gene Roth
Crew
- Director
- John Reinhardt
- Writer
- John Reinhardt, Peter Berneis
- Director of Photography
- Robert De Grasse
- Original Music Composer
- Heinz Roemheld
- Editor
- Arthur H. Nadel
- Producer
- Peter Berneis
Details
- Release date
- 1951-12-31
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Arrowhead Pictures