

Panic in the Streets
THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!
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.
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- Language
- Mandarin
- race against time
- new orleans, louisiana
- outbreak
- film noir
- black and white
- public health
- plague
- tense
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United StatesUS
- PremiereBoston, Massachusetts1 Jul 1950
- Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York4 Aug 1950
- TheatricalNR15 Sept 1950
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)London27 Jul 1950
BrazilBR
- TVLFox Film mj.gov.br26 Nov 1998
- Physical12Fox Home mj.gov.br25 May 2005
FranceFR
- TheatricalU20 Dec 1950
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Panic in the Streets was released on 27 July 1950.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
2/6/2019
Sweaty clock ticker from Elia Kazan. A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. An effective and class, little thriller directed by Elia Kazan that blends documentary realism with a race against time pulpy heartbeat. Set and filmed in and around New Orleans, Panic In The Streets is taken from the story Quarantine, Some Like 'em Cold by Edna and …
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
12/27/2022
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…
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