Fresh
There is vivid action, nice human touches and some bizarre moments. Jack Palance gives a sharp performance.
Variety Staff, Variety
Panic in the Streets
THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!
1950 · 1h 36m · Approved
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Elia Kazan
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Panic in the Streets
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.
Director and cast
- Elia Kazan Director
- Richard Widmark as Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.
- Paul Douglas as Capt. Tom Warren
- Barbara Bel Geddes as Nancy Reed
- Jack Palance as Blackie (as Walter Jack Palance)
- Zero Mostel as Raymond Fitch
- Dan Riss as Neff - Newspaper Reporter
- Tommy Cook as Vince Poldi - Younger Brother
- Wilson Bourg Jr. as Charlie - Sailor (uncredited)
- Beverly C. Brown as Dr. Mackey - Board of Health (uncredited)
- Lewis Charles Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A classy thriller, much less laden with significance than most Kazan movies.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
[The] best and most neglected of Elia Kazan's early features.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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