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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 |
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Producer | Sol C. Siegel
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Writer | Richard Murphy
Edna Anhalt Edward Anhalt |
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Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald
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Musician | Alfred Newman
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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. |
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