- HD 1080
- Runtime: 65m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: William Beaudine
- Stars: Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames, Jan Wiley, Paul Maxey, Philip Van Zandt
- keywords: gambling, brother, gangster, revenge, film noir, election, sweetheart
- Production_studio: Monogram Pictures
- Slogan: DARING...DANGEROUS...DIFFERENT! Meet the New Treat-Em-Rough Guy, WARREN DOUGLAS! He's the Kind Girls Talk About, But Seldom Find!
- The Below the Deadline is featured in the top rankings of 1946
- #45 in Top Crime Movies of 1946
- #47 in Top Thriller Movies of 1946
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.