DEADLINE USA, 1952, 20th Century Fox, 87 min. Dir. Richard Brooks. Veteran managing editor Humphrey Bogart's paper is being sold, and his beloved ex-wife (Kim Hunter) is about to remarry. What's a guy to do? Break open the front page for a daring exposé of the city's biggest mobster, of course! Co-starring Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart.
CHICAGO DEADLINE, 1949, Universal, 87 min. Dir. Lewis Allen. A long-missing noir resurrected! Not as easy to resurrect is the woman (Donna Reed) star reporter Alan Ladd finds dead in a skid-row brothel. He pilfers her address book and starts piecing together her life story, gradually falling in love with the dead girl.