Panic In The Streets
20th Century Fox (1950)
Drama
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IMDB   7.3
1 hr 36 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Paul Douglas New Orleans Police Captain Tom Warren
Barbara Bel Geddes Nancy Reed
Richard Widmark Lieutenant Commander Dr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed U.S. Public Health Service
Jack Palance Blackie
Zero Mostel Raymond Fitch
Dan Riss Neff, Newspaper Reporter
Tommy Cook Vince Poldi, Younger Brother
Wilson Bourg Jr. Charlie, Sailor
Beverly C. Brown Dr. Mackey, New Orleans Board of Health
Lewis Charles Kochak, murder victim
H. Waller Fowler Jr. Mayor Murray
Herman Cottman Officer Scott - Police Lab
William A. Dean Cortelyou
Robert Dorsen Coast Guard Lieutenant
George Ehmig Kleber - Medical Examiner Technician
Director
Elia Kazan
Richard Murphy
Producer Sol C. Siegel
Writer Richard Murphy
Edna Anhalt
Edward Anhalt
Cinematography Joseph MacDonald
Musician Alfred Newman


Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and moral conflict.

In this suspenseful melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks. To the police, he's a John Doe...until a public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are mobilized to track down the killers and all who had contact with the dead man in a desperate race against the clock before the highly contagious disease spreads far beyond the port area and puts the entire country in peril.
Edition Details
Edition Fox Film Noir
Distributor 20th Century Fox
Release Date 3/15/2005
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles English; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Features
COMMENTARY - by authors and historians James Ursini and Alain Silver
THEATRICAL TRAILER