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Chicago Calling
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It is catalogued under topics including 1951 American films, 1951 crime drama films and 1951 English-language films.
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7.7Bill 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 as Bill Cannon
- Mary Anderson as Mary Cannon
- Gordon Gebert as Bobby
- Ross Elliott as Jim
- Melinda Casey as Nancy Cannon
- Judy Brubaker as Babs Kimball
Themes
- parent child relationship
- film noir
- los angeles, california
- poverty
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- John Reinhardt
- Cast member
- Dan Duryea
- Composer
- Heinz Eric Roemheld
- Cinematographer
- Robert De Grasse
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 75
- FilmAffinity ID
- 832277
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- publication date
- 1951-01-01
- title
- Chicago Calling
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- United Artists
- Commons category
- Chicago Calling
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