Panic in the Streets (1950)

NR07/27/1950Thriller, Crime1h 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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Richard Widmark

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

  2. Cast 1

    Paul Douglas

    Capt. Tom Warren

  3. Cast 1

    Barbara Bel Geddes

    Nancy Reed

  4. Cast 1

    Jack Palance

    Blackie

  5. Cast 1

    Zero Mostel

    Raymond Fitch

  6. Cast 1

    Dan Riss

    Neff - Newspaper Reporter

  7. Cast 1

    Tommy Cook

    Vince Poldi - Younger Brother

  8. Wilson Bourg Jr.

    Charlie - Sailor (uncredited)

  9. Beverly C. Brown

    Dr. Mackey - Board of Health (uncredited)

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 s...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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