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Writers:
Tiffany Thayer (novel)
Warren Duff (writer)
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Release Date:
17 October 1949 (Sweden) more
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Tagline:
Ladd pays off for a wronged girl who was a "right guy!". more
Plot:
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Cast

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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 ... Jack Anstruder
Shepperd Strudwick ... Edgar 'Blacky' Franchot
John Beal ... Paul Jean D'Ur
Tom Powers ... Glenn Howard
Gavin Muir ... G.G. Temple
Dave Willock ... Pig
Paul Lees ... Bat Bennett
Roy Roberts ... Jerry Cavanaugh
Howard Freeman ... Hotspur Shaner
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
One Woman (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
86 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since. more
Movie Connections:
Version of Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) (TV) more

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Brooding quest for dead girl can't quite redeem its promise, 26 September 2001
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Author: bmacv from Western New York

Reporter Alan Ladd stumbles across a strange woman, dead of tuberculosis in a seedy Southside hotel. Her address book, however, hints at a wild and well-connected past. (The girl, with the improbable moniker of Rosita Jean D'Ur, is played in flashback by the improbable Donna Reed.) Ladd's quest, as any noir quest should, takes him up and down the intricate layers of Chicago society, through some of which his tour guide is society dame June Havoc, who plays it with panache. This downfall of a good kid with some bad breaks begins to obsess Ladd, and Chicago Deadline (it's been remarked) could almost have been a grittier Laura set not in high society but on cusp where shabby respectability meets the demimonde. But the cunning Vera Caspary (who wrote the novel Laura) is alas nowhere in evidence, so Chicago Deadline becomes almost an object lesson in Edmund Wilson's dictum that the heavy atmospherics in detective fiction are rarely justified by the conclusion. Nonetheless, for most of its running time, Chicago Deadline is a dark and haunting ride.

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