MOVIE · 1949

Chicago Deadline

CrimeDramaMysteryThriller86 min

On Chicago’s South Side, reporter Ed Ames is drawn into a murder case when he finds a young woman dead and pockets her address book before the police can close in. Alan Ladd is Ames, chasing down one contact after another as each man tied to her insists they never knew her. Donna Reed sits at the center of the mystery as the woman whose death opens the case and exposes a chain of fearful denials. What begins as a newspaper story turns into a deeper look at the people orbiting her, and at how dangerous a few names on a page can become.