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Panic in the Streets

Panic in the Streets

JUL 27, 1950 · 96 MIN · DIR. ELIA KAZAN

ThrillerCrime

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 Widmark

    Richard Widmark

    Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.

  • Paul Douglas

    Paul Douglas

    Capt. Tom Warren

  • Barbara Bel Geddes

    Barbara Bel Geddes

    Nancy Reed

  • Jack Palance

    Jack Palance

    Blackie

  • Zero Mostel

    Zero Mostel

    Raymond Fitch

  • Dan Riss

    Dan Riss

    Neff - Newspaper Reporter

  • Tommy Cook

    Tommy Cook

    Vince Poldi - Younger Brother

  • Wilson Bourg Jr.

    Charlie - Sailor (uncredited)

  • Beverly C. Brown

    Dr. Mackey - Board of Health (uncredited)

  • Lewis Charles

    Lewis Charles

    Kochak - Murder Victim (uncredited)

  • Herman Cottman

    Officer Scott - Police Lab (uncredited)

  • John David

    Fruit Salesman (uncredited)

Crew

Writer

John Lee Mahin

Writer

Philip Yordan

Screenplay

Richard Murphy

Story

Edna Anhalt

Story

Edward Anhalt

Director of Photography

Joseph MacDonald

Editor

Harmon Jones

Original Music Composer

Alfred Newman

Producer

Sol C. Siegel

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