Chicago Deadline (1949)
He's a fighting reporter making front page history!
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames 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. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
- Date of release
- 1949-11-03
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (15)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Lewis Allen
Casting
- Alan Ladd — Ed Adams
- Donna Reed — Rosita Jean D'Ur
- June Havoc — Leona
- Irene Hervey — Belle Dorset
- Arthur Kennedy — Tommy Ditman
- Berry Kroeger — Solly Wellman
- Harold Vermilyea — Anstruder
- Shepperd Strudwick — Blacky Franchot
- Dave Willock — Pig
- Gavin Muir — G. G. Temple
- John Beal — Paul Jean d'Ur
- Tom Powers — Howard
Interesting facts
Chicago Deadline is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Alan Ladd and Donna Reed. The film is based on the 1933 novel One Woman by Tiffany Thayer.
Production
The novel One Woman was published in 1933. Paramount bought the film rights and announced the following year they would film it as Are Men Worth It? starring Lee Tracy and Claudette Colbert. In 1935 the project was listed on Paramount's schedule with Colbert still attached. Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht were reportedly working on a script with Benjamin Glazer. No film resulted.
Donna Reed had just appeared opposite Ladd in Beyond Glory. She was borrowed from MGM again to play his co-star. Lewis Allen was assigned to direct.
Filming started on July 29, 1948, on location in Chicago. The title was changed from One Woman to Chicago Deadline in November.
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