"He's a fighting reporter making front page history!" 03 November 1949 Drama, Crime 86 mins
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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Alan Ladd as Ed Adams
Donna Reed as Rosita Jean D'Ur
June Havoc as Leona
Irene Hervey as Belle Dorset
Arthur Kennedy as Tommy Ditman
Berry Kroeger as Solly Wellman
Harold Vermilyea as Anstruder
Shepperd Strudwick as Blacky Franchot
Dave Willock as Pig
Gavin Muir as G. G. Temple
John Beal as Paul Jean d'Ur
Tom Powers as Howard
Howard Freeman as Hotspur Shaner
Paul Lees as Bat
Margaret Field as Minerva
Harry Antrim as Gribbe
Lewis Allen Director
Robert Fellows Producer
John F. Seitz Director of Photography
LeRoy Stone Editor
Franz Bachelin Art Direction
Hans Dreier Art Direction
Sam Comer Set Decoration
Ross Dowd Set Decoration
Mary Kay Dodson Costume Design
Wally Westmore Makeup Supervisor
Alvin Ganzer Assistant Director
Gene Garvin Sound Recordist
Harold Lewis Sound Recordist
Farciot Edouart Visual Effects
Warren Duff Screenplay
Tiffany Thayer Story
United States 03 November 1949
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