Panic in the Streets (1950)

Directors

Elia Kazan

Cast

Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss, Tommy Cook

The story

In the wharf area of New Orleans a man named Kochak, sick with a flulike illness, is killed after a brawl by gangster Blackie and his two flunkies, Kochak's cousin Poldi and a man named Fitch. They leave the body on the docks, and later when the unidentified dead man is brought to the morgue, the coroner grows suspicious about the bacteria present in his blood and calls Dr. Clinton Reed of the U.S.

Genres

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