Chicago calling [videorecording] / Joseph Justman (Arrowhead) presentation ; producer, Peter Berneis ; director, John Reinhardt ; written by John Reinhardt and Peter Berneis.
Videodisc release of the 1951 motion picture. Dan Duryea, Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert, Ross Elliott, Marsha Jones.
Summary:
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 mear melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul. (container)
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