Chicago Deadline
Nov 03, 1949 | IMDB 6.5
86 min Watch NowDrama, Crime
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.
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IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 1949
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IMDB 4 | Jul , 1963
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