Chicago Deadline (1949)

Director: Lewis Allen Writers: Warren Duff (screenplay), Tiffany Thayer (novel) Cast: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Arthur Kennedy Release Date: 3 November 1949 (USA) Genre: Drama | Film-Noir Plot: 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. Language: English