Panic in the Streets (1950)
19501h 36mNRThrillerCrime
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.
Cast
Richard WidmarkLt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.
Paul DouglasCapt. Tom Warren
Barbara Bel GeddesNancy Reed
Jack PalanceBlackie
Zero MostelRaymond Fitch
Dan RissNeff - Newspaper Reporter
Tommy CookVince Poldi - Younger Brother- WWilson Bourg Jr.Charlie - Sailor (uncredited)
- BBeverly C. BrownDr. Mackey - Board of Health (uncredited)
Lewis CharlesKochak - Murder Victim (uncredited)- HHerman CottmanOfficer Scott - Police Lab (uncredited)
- JJohn DavidFruit Salesman (uncredited)
- WWilliam A. DeanCortelyou (uncredited)
- RRobert DorsenCoast Guard Lieutenant (uncredited)
- GGeorge EhmigKleber - Medical Examiner Technician (uncredited)
- HH. Waller Fowler Jr.Mayor Murray (uncredited)
- PPaul HostetlerLt. Paul Gafney M.D. - Public Health Service (uncredited)
Elia KazanCleaver - Mortuary Assistant (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Elia Kazan
- Producers
- Sol C. Siegel
- Music
- Alfred Newman
- Cinematography
- Joseph MacDonald
- Editing
- Harmon Jones
Details
- Released
- July 27, 1950
- Language
- English
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- IMDb
- tt0042832