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Chicago Deadline

He's a fighting reporter making front page history!

6.5

1h 26m

1949

“He's a fighting reporter making front page history!”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Lewis Allen

Trailer

DramaCrime

film noirreporter

Cast & Crew

Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd

as Ed Adams

Donna Reed

Donna Reed

as Rosita Jean D'Ur

June Havoc

June Havoc

as Leona

Irene Hervey

Irene Hervey

as Belle Dorset

Arthur Kennedy

Arthur Kennedy

as Tommy Ditman

Berry Kroeger

Berry Kroeger

as Solly Wellman

Harold Vermilyea

Harold Vermilyea

as Anstruder

Shepperd Strudwick

Shepperd Strudwick

as Blacky Franchot

Dave Willock

Dave Willock

as Pig

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