PANIC IN THE STREETS

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• Release Year: 1950
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and moral conflict.; ; In this suspenseful melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks. To the police, he's a John Doe...until a public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are mobilized to track down the killers and all who had contact with the dead man in a desperate race against the clock before the highly contagious disease spreads far beyond the port area and puts the entire country in peril. ;
• Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss, Tommy Cook, Wilson Bourg Jr., Beverly C. Brown, Lewis Charles, Herman Cottman, John David, William A. Dean, Robert Dorsen, George Ehmig, H. Waller Fowler Jr., Darwin Greenfield, Paul Hostetler, Elia Kazan, Edward Kennedy, Mary Liswood, Henry Mamet, Tiger Joe Marsh, Ruth Moore Mathews, Emile Meyer, Alexis Minotis, Rex Moad, Ray Müller, Lenka Peterson, Waldo Pitkin, Tommy Rettig, Stanley J. Reyes, John Schilleci, Aline Stevens, Al Theriot, Guy Thomajan, Arthur Tong, H.T. Tsiang, Irvine Vidacovich, Juan Villasana, Pat Walshe, Val Winter, Leo Zinser, Richard Murphy, Daniel Fuchs, Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt, John Lee Mahin, Philip Yordan
• Director: Elia Kazan
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Twentieth Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie