Chicago Deadline (1949)

6.7/10 86 min Drama Crime

Overview

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

Cast

Alan Ladd

Ed Adams

Donna Reed

Rosita Jean D'Ur

June Havoc

Leona

Irene Hervey

Belle Dorset

Arthur Kennedy

Tommy Ditman

Berry Kroeger

Solly Wellman

Harold Vermilyea

Anstruder

Shepperd Strudwick

Blacky Franchot

Dave Willock

Pig

Gavin Muir

G. G. Temple

John Beal

Paul Jean d'Ur

Tom Powers

Howard

Howard Freeman

Hotspur Shaner

Margaret Field

Minerva

Harry Antrim

Gribbe

Roy Roberts

Jerry Cavanaugh

Marietta Canty

Hazel

Carole Mathews

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