Chicago Deadline
He's a fighting reporter making front page history!
1949 | 86m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | Lewis Allen |
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| Writer: | Warren Duff, Tiffany Thayer |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 03, 1949 |
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| Director: | Lewis Allen |
| Writer: | Warren Duff, Tiffany Thayer |
| Genres: | Crime, Drama |
| Keywords | film noir, reporter |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 28, 2026 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Alan Ladd | Ed Adams |
| 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 |
| Dave Willock | Pig |
| Gavin Muir | G. G. Temple |
| John Beal | Paul Jean d'Ur |
| Tom Powers | Howard |
| Howard Freeman | Hotspur Shaner |
| Paul Lees | Bat |
| Margaret Field | Minerva |
| Harry Antrim | Gribbe |
| Roy Roberts | Jerry Cavanaugh |
| Marietta Canty | Hazel |
| Carole Mathews |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| LeRoy Stone | Editor |
| Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Ross Dowd | Set Decoration |
| Mary Kay Dodson | Costume Design |
| Alvin Ganzer | Assistant Director |
| Gene Garvin | Sound Recordist |
| Harold Lewis | Sound Recordist |
| Farciot Edouart | Visual Effects |
| Warren Duff | Screenplay |
| Tiffany Thayer | Story |
| Lewis Allen | Director |
| John F. Seitz | Director of Photography |
| Franz Bachelin | Art Direction |
| Sam Comer | Set Decoration |
| Wally Westmore | Makeup Supervisor |
| Victor Young | Music |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Robert Fellows | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
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