desperation hang over this story until the very end . the family home be a chicago tenement and and the dad be picture a a real loser . mother and child be leave to stay with relative until good time happen . repeat phone call be no help and and the long distance charge result in an order for a disconnect . when the final phone call come through ( thanks go a kind hearted phone lineman and ) the news be bad and and the duryea character contemplates suicide . yet the very illogical end countermand the whole story and leave one with a feeling of this could never happen in real life . a parallel plot can be find in night into morning with ray milland . i would so like to find this movie on tape or dvd .