Chicago Deadline (1949)

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.

IMDb rating	6.3
Producers	Paramount
Original title	Chicago Deadline
Directors	Alvin Ganzer, Lewis Allen
Writers	Tiffany Thayer, Warren Duff

Cast

Alan Ladd

as Ed Adams

Donna Reed

as Rosita Jean D'Ur

June Havoc

as Leona

Irene Hervey

as Belle Dorset

Arthur Kennedy

as Tommy Ditman

Berry Kroeger

as Solly Wellman

Harold Vermilyea

as Anstruder

Shepperd Strudwick

as Blacky Franchot

Dave Willock

as Pig

Gavin Muir

as G. G. Temple

John Beal

as Paul Jean d'Ur

Tom Powers

as Howard

Howard Freeman

as Hotspur Shaner

Paul Lees

as Bat

Margaret Field

as Minerva

Harry Antrim

as Gribbe

Roy Roberts

as Jerry Cavanaugh

Marietta Canty

as Hazel