Chicago Calling

Chicago CallingBill 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

and an opportunistic agent sets Moxie up with a hot new penman

Ada Gillis (Hayward) uses ambition

Director John Huston ("The African Queen

" "An American in Paris") directs this musical film version of the acclaimed Broadway production about a Baghdad poet who charms his way into the Wazir's harem

but what really makes this film is its can-you-believe-it production values: the ball

Rod Webb (Grant) and his faithful canine companion

a car is tossed aside like a twig

With its dramatic story and spectacular visuals

Ken Russell explores the lives of artists and in turn finds inspiration for his own considerable cinematic creativity

to convince people that he is Prescott's brother and to plant seeds of doubt about Prescott's sanity

Danny Aiello and future The Sopranos costars Dominic Chianese and Anthony Sirico

head of the notorious Blue Chip gang of horse rustlers