Overview - Chicago Calling

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.

Cast

• Name: Dan Duryea

  Character: Bill Cannon

  Popularity: 0.5142

  

• Name: Mary Anderson

  Character: Mary Cannon

  Popularity: 0.5001

  

• Name: Gordon Gebert

  Character: Bobby

  Popularity: 0.7414

  

• Name: Ross Elliott

  Character: Jim

  Popularity: 0.4899

  

• Name: Melinda Casey

  Character: Nancy Cannon

  Popularity: 0.3443

  

• Name: Judy Brubaker

  Character: Babs Kimball

  Popularity: 0.0737

  

• Name: Marcia Mae Jones

  Character: Peggy (as Marsha Jones)

  Popularity: 0.2951

  

• Name: Marsha Jones

  Character: Peggy

  Popularity: 0.1116