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