Chicago Deadline
6.3
“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.
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Cast
23 people
Alan Ladd
Ed Adams
Known for
Shane
This Gun for Hire
Celia Lovsky
Mrs. Schleffler
Ottola Nesmith
Sister John
Richard Keene
John Spingler
Donna Reed
Rosita Jean D'Ur
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
From Here to Eternity
June Havoc
Leona
Known for
A Return to Salem's Lot
Gentleman's Agreement
Irene Hervey
Belle Dorset
Known for
Play Misty for Me
Cactus Flower
Arthur Kennedy
Tommy Ditman
Known for
Lawrence of Arabia
The Man from Laramie
Berry Kroeger
Solly Wellman
Known for
Gun Crazy
Demon Seed
Kasey Rogers
Marcia Grantland
Harold Vermilyea
Anstruder
Known for
Sorry, Wrong Number
The Big Clock
Shepperd Strudwick
Blacky Franchot
Known for
All the King's Men
A Place in the Sun
Lewis Allen Director · Warren Duff Screenplay Tiffany Thayer Story
United States release November 3, 1949 · Produced in United States
Production
Paramount Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 3, 1949
Theatrical
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