

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

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
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Lewis Allen's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. Chicago Deadline is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”