Chicago Deadline

Chicago Deadline is a 1949 American film noir thriller directed Lewis Allen. The production features Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Irene Hervey and Arthur Kennedy.

The police declare that the cause of death for Rosita was a tubercular hemorrhage, but Ed suspects otherwise. His curiosity increases after calling several of the people listed in her diary and not one of them admits to knowing her. Ed talks to hoodlum Solly Wellman, G. G. Temple, the vicepresident of a major trust company, and Belle Dorset, and they all deny any knowledge of Rosita. However, Belle Dorset is so shook up by the call that she immediately moves.Ed gets a lead in this criminal conundrum and follows it to a party. There he meets Leona Purdy, an alluring blonde woman who once knew Rosita, but who fails to reveal anything about the deceased woman. Ed starts dating Leona, but he continues his investigation of what happened to Rosita. Although his coworkers think Rosita was a promiscuous woman, Ed is convinced that she was mistreated because she was compassionate. Eds suspicions about the circumstances surrounding her lonely death grow increasingly, especially after both Wellman and Temple start to threaten him. ........

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