Panic in the Streets
1950 · 96 min
Directed by Elia Kazan. Written by Daniel Fuchs, Richard Murphy. Starring Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance.
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.
Critics 96% · audiences 77% · 1 Oscar nomination, 1 won