23 Mar 2019
The Kids' Diner
The film is about poor children and 'The Kids' Diner', a place where they can go to get free or cheap food.
Chicago Calling
$53 means life or death to him!
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 Billed Cast
Dan Duryea Bill Cannon
Mary Anderson Mary Cannon
Gordon Gebert Bobby
Ross Elliott Jim
Melinda Casey Nancy Cannon
Judy Brubaker Babs Kimball
Marcia Mae Jones Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
Marsha Jones Peggy
Roy Engel Pete
Jean Harvey Christine
Steve Pendleton Police Lt. Ryan
Gene Roth Guard
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