Panic in the Streets
feature film, crime drama, USA, 1950
DIRECTED BY: Elia Kazan
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’