Panic in the Streets (1950)

1950 · Feature film · 96 min · dir. Elia Kazan

THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!

• Drama
• film noir

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Synopsis

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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Details

Director

Elia Kazan

Writer

Edna Anhalt

Composer

Alfred Newman

Cinematography

Joseph MacDonald

Studio

20th Century Fox

Released

1950-07-27

Running time

96 minutes

Cast & crew

• Elia Kazan Director
• Alexis Minotis
• Emile Meyer
• Paul Douglas
• Tommy Rettig
• Richard Widmark
• Daniela Rocca
• Barbara Bel Geddes
• Jack Palance

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