Panic in the Streets (1950)
THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!
96 min
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.
- Release date
- August 4, 1950
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Richard Widmark as Lt. Cmdr. Clinton Reed
- Paul Douglas as Capt. Tom Warren
- Barbara Bel Geddes as Nancy Reed
- Jack Palance as Blackie
- Zero Mostel as Raymond Fitch
- Dan Riss as Neff
- Tommy Cook as Vince Poldi
- Julius Alford as Mayors' assistant
- Wilson Bourg Jr. as Charlie
- Beverly C. Brown as Dr. Mackey
Crew
- Elia Kazan · Director
- Richard Murphy · Writer
- Daniel Fuchs · Writer
- Edna Anhalt · Writer
- Edward Anhalt · Writer
- Sol C. Siegel · Producer
- Alfred Newman · Composer
- Joseph MacDonald · Cinematographer
- Harmon Jones · Editor