- HD 1080
- Runtime: 86m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Lewis Allen
- Stars: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Irene Hervey, Arthur Kennedy
- keywords: film noir, reporter
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures
- Slogan: He's a fighting reporter making front page history!
- The Chicago Deadline is featured in the top rankings of 1949
- #92 in Top Drama Movies of 1949
- #43 in Top Crime Movies of 1949
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.