Chicago Deadline (1949)

  • NR
  • 11/03/1949 (US)
  • Drama, Crime
  • 1h 26m

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.

Lewis Allen

Director

Tiffany Thayer

Story

Warren Duff

Screenplay

Cast

Alan Ladd's headshot

Alan Ladd

Ed Adams
Donna Reed's headshot

Donna Reed

Rosita Jean D'Ur
June Havoc's headshot

June Havoc

Leona
Irene Hervey's headshot

Irene Hervey

Belle Dorset
Arthur Kennedy's headshot

Arthur Kennedy

Tommy Ditman
Berry Kroeger's headshot

Berry Kroeger

Solly Wellman
Harold Vermilyea's headshot

Harold Vermilyea

Anstruder
Shepperd Strudwick's headshot

Shepperd Strudwick

Blacky Franchot

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