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Chicago Deadline

1949, Movie, NR, 86 mins

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Ladd is as hardboiled as ever in this minor film noir classic. He is a tough reporter in Chicago (though he is never shown working at a typewriter) who first appears at a run-down south side rooming house, attempting to talk a runaway girl into returning home. In the next room he finds the emaciated but beautiful body of a girl who has died of tuberculosis (Reed). Before the police arrive Ladd pockets her address book and then systematically begins to look up the various ven... read more leave a comment
Year: 1949
Rated NR

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Cast
Alan Ladd: Ed Adams
Donna Reed: Rosita Jean D'Ur
June Havoc: Leona Purdy
Irene Hervey: Belle Dorset
Arthur Kennedy: Tommy Ditman
Berry Kroeger: Solly Wellman

 

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