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Chicago Deadline

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams 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. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

Director

Lewis Allen

Year

Genre

crime, drama, film-noir

Box Office

N/A

Production

Paramount Pictures

Awards

1 nomination

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Leona Purdy

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Tommy Ditman

Solly Wellman

Jack Anstruder

Harold Vermilyea

Edgar 'Blacky' Franchot

Shepperd Strudwick

Pig

G.G. Temple

Paul Jean d'Ur

Glenn Howard

Hotspur Shaner

Bat Bennett

Minerva

George Gribbe

Jerry Cavanaugh

Hazel

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Telephone Operataor

Reporter

Bartender

Waiter

Marty

Minister

Reporter

Second

Woman

Fight Crowd Extra

Thug Who Mugs Ed

Nurse

Bartender

Reporter

John Spingler

Newspaper Worker

Maid

Phyllis Kennedy

Assistant Undertaker

Mrs. Schleffler

Handler

Miss Lee - Secretary

Reporter

Reporter

Ralph Montgomery

Reporter

Sister John

Lou Horan

Taxi Driver

Party Guest

Reporter

Specialty Act

Specialty Act

Handler

Maggie

Marcia Grantland

Telephone Operator

Frances Sandford

Detective Pete Peterson

Charlie - Reporter

Douglas Spencer

Nelson

Clarence Straight

Copyboy

Dirk Wayne Summers

Doctor

Reporter

Archie Twitchell

Girl

Actor

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Take a good look, Minerva. - Chicago Deadline

Take a good look, Minerva.

Dead! - Chicago Deadline

Ed, Ed, what'll I do? - Chicago Deadline

Ed, Ed, what'll I do?

Your face is flushed - Chicago Deadline

Your face is flushed

I'll pick you up between nine and 10. - Chicago Deadline

I'll pick you up between nine and 10.

Adams! - Chicago Deadline

It's Rosita, isn't it? - Chicago Deadline

It's Rosita, isn't it?

Hello? - Chicago Deadline

Blacky! - Chicago Deadline

Blacky. - Chicago Deadline

Three, four, five and five is 10. - Chicago Deadline

Three, four, five and five is 10.

Could you explain the killing? - Chicago Deadline

Could you explain the killing?

What did you take as a sedative before you met me - Chicago Deadline

What did you take as a sedative before you met me

Come on, break it up, break it up. - Chicago Deadline

Come on, break it up, break it up.

No siren. - Chicago Deadline

I have to go, - Chicago Deadline

Step on it, driver. - Chicago Deadline

Step on it, driver.

Nobody crosses Solly. - Chicago Deadline

Nobody crosses Solly.

Hurry it up, driver. - Chicago Deadline

Hurry it up, driver.

Get the door. - Chicago Deadline

Come on, get out of here. - Chicago Deadline

Come on, get out of here.

Check that door! - Chicago Deadline

Check that door!

All right, Adams. - Chicago Deadline

All right, Adams.

Forget what I said to
you before, will you? - Chicago Deadline

Forget what I said to you before, will you?

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On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams 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. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

User Rating: 0.0 (0 ratings)

Director: Lewis Allen

Writer: Warren Duff, Tiffany Thayer

Production: Paramount Pictures

Genre: crime, drama, film-noir

Year: 1949

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 6.4

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 03 Nov 1949

Awards: 1 nomination

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