Panic in the Streets

feature film, crime drama, USA, 1950

DIRECTED BY: Elia Kazan

Panic in the Streets

CAST:
Richard Widmark (Clinton 'Clint' Reed),
Barbara Bel Geddes (Nancy Reed),
Paul Douglas (Tom Warren),
Tommy Cook (Vince Poldi),
Zero Mostel (Raymond Fitch)

SCRIPT:
Richard Murphy,
Daniel Fuchs

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Joseph MacDonald

MUSIC:
Alfred Newman

EDITING:
Harmon Jones

Synopsis:
On the docks of the New Orleans harbor a group of small time crooks kill an illegal immigrant in a fight over a card game. When his body arrives to the morgue, the pathologist suspects it to be infected with lung disease and asks help from Dr. Clinton Reed from the Public Health department. The diagnosis is confirmed and the doctors immediately start the search for others who might be infected in order to prevent an epidemic.

b/w, 96’

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