Panic in the Streets

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Panic in the Streets (1950)

NR 08/04/1950 (US) Thriller, Crime 1h 36m

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THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!

Overview

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.

Elia Kazan

Director
Richard Murphy

Screenplay
Edna Anhalt

Story
Edward Anhalt

Story
Philip Yordan

Writer
John Lee Mahin

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Richard Widmark

Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.
Paul Douglas

Capt. Tom Warren
Barbara Bel Geddes

Nancy Reed
Jack Palance

Blackie
Zero Mostel

Raymond Fitch
Dan Riss

Neff - Newspaper Reporter
Tommy Cook

Vince Poldi - Younger Brother
Wilson Bourg Jr.

Charlie - Sailor (uncredited)
Beverly C. Brown

Dr. Mackey - Board of Health (uncredited)
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Written by CinemaSerf on December 27, 2022

As of March 2020, a rather apposite story of a New Orleans murderer who has a deadly plague. It falls to Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas to track down this walking petrie dish before his contagion spreads through the whole of the country. What follows is quite a quickly paced thriller with Barbara Bel Geddes as Widmark's rather pretty, but soporific gal and Jack Palance, menacing and thoughtless, portraying "Blackie" who, with Zero Mostel, is trying to help his toxic pal escape the clutches of his pursuers. The problem is that the cast are pretty wooden and don't gel especially well; it's a su... read the rest.

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