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Chicago Deadline
Chicago Deadline
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1949
1h 26m
6.7(15 votes)
Drama
Crime

Overview

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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