
Chicago Calling
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.
Top Cast


Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea
Bill Cannon
Dan Duryea
Bill Cannon


Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson
Mary Cannon
Mary Anderson
Mary Cannon
Gordon Gebert
Gordon Gebert
Bobby
Gordon Gebert
Bobby


Ross Elliott
Ross Elliott
Jim
Ross Elliott
Jim


Melinda Casey
Melinda Casey
Nancy Cannon
Melinda Casey
Nancy Cannon
Judy Brubaker
Judy Brubaker
Babs Kimball
Judy Brubaker
Babs Kimball


Marcia Mae Jones
Marcia Mae Jones
Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
Marcia Mae Jones
Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
Marsha Jones
Marsha Jones
Peggy
Marsha Jones
Peggy
Roy Engel
Roy Engel
Pete
Roy Engel
Pete
Jean Harvey
Jean Harvey
Christine
Jean Harvey
Christine
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