21 Nov 1940
The Letter
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Chicago Deadline
He's a fighting reporter making front page history!
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.
Top Billed Cast
Alan Ladd Ed Adams
Donna Reed Rosita Jean D'Ur
June Havoc Leona
Irene Hervey Belle Dorset
Arthur Kennedy Tommy Ditman
Berry Kroeger Solly Wellman
Harold Vermilyea Anstruder
Shepperd Strudwick Blacky Franchot
Dave Willock Pig
Gavin Muir G. G. Temple
John Beal Paul Jean d'Ur
Tom Powers Howard
Howard Freeman Hotspur Shaner
Paul Lees Bat
Margaret Field Minerva
Harry Antrim Gribbe
Roy Roberts Jerry Cavanaugh
Marietta Canty Hazel
Carole Mathews
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