

Chicago Deadline
1949-11-03 · 86 min · ★ 6.7
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.
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- Directors
- Lewis Allen
- Production companies
- Paramount Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Alan LaddEd Adams
Donna ReedRosita Jean D'Ur
June HavocLeona
Irene HerveyBelle Dorset
Arthur KennedyTommy Ditman
Berry KroegerSolly Wellman
Harold VermilyeaAnstruder
Shepperd StrudwickBlacky Franchot
Dave WillockPig
Gavin MuirG. G. Temple
John BealPaul Jean d'Ur
Tom PowersHoward
Howard FreemanHotspur Shaner
Paul LeesBat
Margaret FieldMinerva
Harry AntrimGribbe
Roy RobertsJerry Cavanaugh
Marietta CantyHazel
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