Chicago Deadline

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.

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

Gavin Muir

G. G. Temple

John Beal

Paul Jean d'Ur

Dave Willock

Pig

Tom Powers

Howard

Roy Roberts

Jerry Cavanaugh

Paul Lees

Bat

Howard Freeman

Hotspur Shaner

Marietta Canty

Hazel

Harry Antrim

Gribbe

Margaret Field

Minerva