Chicago Deadline

Nov 3, 1949

1h 26m

★ 6.3

He's a fighting reporter making front page history!

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.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Ed Adams

Alan Ladd

Rosita Jean D'Ur

Donna Reed

Leona

June Havoc

Belle Dorset

Irene Hervey

Tommy Ditman

Arthur Kennedy

Solly Wellman

Berry Kroeger

Anstruder

Harold Vermilyea

Blacky Franchot

Shepperd Strudwick

Pig

Dave Willock

G. G. Temple

Gavin Muir

Paul Jean d'Ur

John Beal

Howard

Tom Powers

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