Panic in the Streets (1950)

Name: Panic in the Streets
Director: Elia Kazan
Released: 1950-07-27
Rating: 6.918
Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel

ThrillerCrime

96 min

"THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!"

Plot Summary

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.