On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams 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. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Alan Ladd | ... | Ed Adams | |
| Donna Reed | ... | Rosita Jean d'Ur | |
| June Havoc | ... | Leona Purdy | |
| Irene Hervey | ... | Belle Dorset | |
| Arthur Kennedy | ... | Tommy Ditman | |
| Berry Kroeger | ... | Solly Wellman | |
| Harold Vermilyea | ... | Jack Anstruder | |
| Shepperd Strudwick | ... | Edgar 'Blacky' Franchot | |
| Dave Willock | ... | Pig | |
| Gavin Muir | ... | G.G. Temple | |
| John Beal | ... | Paul Jean d'Ur | |
| Tom Powers | ... | Glenn Howard | |
| Howard Freeman | ... | Hotspur Shaner | |
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Paul Lees | ... | Bat Bennett |
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Margaret Field | ... | Minerva |
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On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams 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. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
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Ladd pays off for a wronged girl who was a "right guy!". See more »Parents Guide:
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3 November 1949 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
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Leona: I'm a little dizzy. I don't get along very well with champagne; and you shouldn't have looked at me like that.
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"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 24, 1950 with Alan Ladd reprising his film role. See more »Quotes
Ed Adams: Your face is flushed, baby.Leona: I'm a little dizzy. I don't get along very well with champagne; and you shouldn't have looked at me like that.
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Reporter Alan Ladd (Ed Adams) outrageously interferes with things when he steals an address book from the room in which Donna Reed (Rosita) is found dead. He retraces her life by contacting the people in this address book and a few people get bumped off along the way.
Unfortunately Donna Reed hasn't led a very interesting life so God knows why anyone would show any interest in pursuing her address book, especially as her death is not at all suspicious. Alan Ladd is obviously a weirdo.
A lot of time is spent on the telephone in this film. It's just blah blah blah on the blower! Still, the film is OK even if you can't follow the cast of thousands. Alan Ladd sums things up for you at the end with a synopsis of what has just happened. But he delivers it at breakneck speed so it doesn't really help. It's a vehicle for Alan Ladd and it's all a bit pointless.