THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!
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.
- 6.9
- 1950
- Released
- 1h 36m
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)
Lewis Charles
Kochak - Murder Victim (uncredited)Herman Cottman
Officer Scott - Police Lab (uncredited)John David
Fruit Salesman (uncredited)William A. Dean
Cortelyou (uncredited)Robert Dorsen
Coast Guard Lieutenant (uncredited)George Ehmig
Kleber - Medical Examiner Technician (uncredited)H. Waller Fowler Jr.
Mayor Murray (uncredited)Paul Hostetler
Lt. Paul Gafney M.D. - Public Health Service (uncredited)Edward Kennedy
Jordan (uncredited)Mary Liswood
Angie Fitch - Raymond's Wife (uncredited)Henry Mamet
Anson (uncredited)Tiger Joe Marsh
Bosun on Nile Queen (uncredited)Ruth Moore Mathews
Mrs. Dubin (uncredited)
Emile Meyer
Capt. Beauclyde - Master of Nile Queen (uncredited)
Alex Minotis
John Mefaris - Restaurant Owner (uncredited)Rex Moad
Wynant (uncredited)Ray Müller
Dubin (uncredited)
Lenka Peterson
Jeanette - Charlie's Girlfriend (uncredited)Waldo Pitkin
Ben (uncredited)
Tommy Rettig
Tommy Reed (uncredited)Stanley J. Reyes
Redfield (uncredited)John Schilleci
Lee (uncredited)Al Theriot
Al (uncredited)
Guy Thomajan
Poldi - Blackie's Flunky (uncredited)Arthur Tong
Lascar Boy on Nile Queen (uncredited)H.T. Tsiang
Cook on Nile Queen (uncredited)Irvine Vidacovich
Johnston (uncredited)Juan Villasana
Hotel Proprietor (uncredited)Pat Walshe
Pat - Newspaper Peddler (uncredited)Val Winter
Commissioner Dan Quinn (uncredited)Leo Zinser
Sgt. Phelps (uncredited)Aline Stevens
Rita Mefaris (uncredited)
Released
en
- #race against time
- #new orleans, louisiana
- #outbreak
- #film noir
- #black and white
- #public health
- #plague
- #tense
Reviews
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,
Sweaty clock ticker from Elia Kazan. A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. An effective and class, little thriller directed by Elia Kazan that blends documentary realism with a race against time pulpy heartbeat. Set and filmed in and around New Orleans, Panic In The Streets is taken from the story Quarantine, Some Like '