Panic in the Streets (1950)

NR ★ 6.9/10 96 min Thriller, Crime United States English

Director: Elia Kazan

Story by: Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
Screenplay by: Richard Murphy
Adaptation: Daniel Fuchs
Writers: John Lee Mahin, Philip Yordan

Streaming: Not available

THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!

Description

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.