Chicago Deadline

6.536

86 minutes

11/3/1949

Overview

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 List

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
Carole Mathews