Nov 03, 1949
86 min
Full-HD

Chicago Deadline (1949)

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.

Category

Drama Crime

Country

United States of America

Companies

Paramount Pictures

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

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