Panic in the Streets

• 6.8 Thriller
• 1950-07-27
• 96 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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))

Director:

Elia Kazan

Writer:

Richard Murphy John Lee Mahin Philip Yordan