Chicago Calling (1951)
$53 means life or death to him!
75 min
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.
- Data de estreia
- 31 de dezembro de 1951
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
Elenco
- Dan Duryea como William R. Cannon
- Mary Anderson como Mary Cannon
- Gordon Gebert como Bobby
- Ross Elliott como Jim
- Melinda Casey como Nancy Cannon
- Judith Trafford como Barbara 'Babs' Kimball
- Marcia Mae Jones como Peggy
- Roy Engel como Pete
- Dick Curtis como Road Gang Foreman
- Bob Fallon como Art
Equipe
- John Reinhardt · Diretor(a)
- John Reinhardt · Roteirista
- Peter Berneis · Roteirista
- Peter Berneis · Produtor(a)
- Heinz Roemheld · Compositor(a)
- Robert De Grasse · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Arthur H. Nadel · Editor(a)
- Boris Leven · Diretor(a) de arte