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67% Critic Match
Chicago Deadline
“He's a fighting reporter making front page history!”
6.7 / 10• 1949• 1h 26m•NR• English
DramaCrime
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Alan Ladd
Ed Adams
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Lewis Allen's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Chicago Deadline is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
