Chicago Deadline (1949)





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.


Books with substantial mentioning of Chicago Deadline

Marilyn Henry and Ron DeSourdis
The Films of Alan Ladd
Secaucus, NJ, 1981

Books with an entry on Chicago Deadline

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003