Chicago Calling is a 1951 drama film directed by John Reinhardt and starring Dan Duryea and Mary Anderson. The film centers on the unsuccessful drinking photographer Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea), whose wife abandons him, leaving with their daughter to another city. When the two get into a car accident along the way, Bill desperately seeks for money to call to Chicago to find out about their fate. Having met an unfortunate single boy in the process, Bill gets so close with him that, after learning about his daughter's death, he starts calling the boy his son.