Chicago Deadline
(1949)
Drama / Film Noir
86 minutes
Directed by Lewis Allen
Cast:
Irene Hervey as Belle Dorset
Berry Kroeger as Solly Wellman
Harold Vermilyea as Jack Anstruder
Shepperd Strudwick as Edgar 'Blacky' Franchot
Dave Willock as Pig
Gavin Muir as G.G. Temple
John Beal as Paul Jean d'Ur
Tom Powers as Glenn Howard
Howard Freeman as Hotspur Shaner
Paul Lees as Bat Bennett
Margaret Field as Minerva
Harry Antrim as George Gribbe
Roy Roberts as Jerry Cavanaugh
Ed Ames is a reporter who discovers the dead body of a girl on the south side of Chicago. He finds her address book full of men’s names who all reveal they did not know who she was. Ames learns more and more, which leads him to danger.
