Panic in the Streets (1950)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Richard Widmark
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton Reed
Paul Douglas
Capt. Tom Warren
Barbara Bel Geddes
Nancy Reed
Jack Palance
Blackie
Zero Mostel
Raymond Fitch
Dan Riss
Neff
Tommy Cook
Vince Poldi
Wilson Bourg Jr.
Charlie
Beverly C. Brown
Dr. Mackey
Lewis Charles
Kolchak
Herman Cottman
Officer Scott - Police Lab (uncredited)
John Lee Mahin
Writer
John David
Fruit Salesman (uncredited)
Elia Kazan
Director
William A. Dean
Cortelyou (uncredited)
Richard Murphy
Writer
Robert Dorsen
Coast Guard Lieutenant (uncredited)
Daniel Fuchs
Writer
George Ehmig
Kleber - Medical Examiner Technician (uncredited)
Edna Anhalt
Writer
Edward Anhalt
Writer
H. Waller Fowler Jr.
Mayor Murray (uncredited)
Paul Hostetler
Lt. Paul Gafney M.D. - Public Health Service (uncredited)
Sol C. Siegel
Producer
Alfred Newman
Composer
Edward Kennedy
Jordan (uncredited)
Joseph MacDonald
Cinematographer
Mary Liswood
Angie Fitch - Raymond's Wife (uncredited)
Harmon Jones
Editor
Henry Mamet
Anson (uncredited)
Tiger Joe Marsh
Bosun on Nile Queen (uncredited)
Ruth Moore Mathews
Mrs. Dubin (uncredited)
Emile Meyer
Capt. Beauclyde - Master of Nile Queen (uncredited)
Alex Minotis
John Mefaris - Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
Rex Moad
Wynant (uncredited)
Ray Müller
Dubin (uncredited)
Lenka Peterson
Jeanette - Charlie's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Waldo Pitkin
Ben (uncredited)
Tommy Rettig
Tommy Reed (uncredited)
Stanley J. Reyes
Redfield (uncredited)
John Schilleci
Lee (uncredited)
Aline Stevens
Mrs. Rita Mefaris (uncredited)
Al Theriot
Al (uncredited)
Guy Thomajan
Poldi - Blackie's Flunky (uncredited)
Arthur Tong
Lascar Boy on Nile Queen (uncredited)
H.T. Tsiang
Cook on Nile Queen (uncredited)
Irvine Vidacovich
Johnston (uncredited)
Juan Villasana
Hotel Proprietor (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 27, 1950
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Filming LocationsNew Orleans, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
Panic in the Streets is a 1950 American film noir medical drama / thriller, directed by Elia Kazan. released by 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was shot exclusively on location in New Orleans, Louisiana, and features numerous scenes around the city and Port of New Orleans along the Mississippi River and showing various New Orleans citizens in speaking and non-speaking roles.The film tells the story of Lieutenant Commander Clinton Reed, an U.S. Public Health officer of the United States Public Health Service (now in the United States Department of Health and Human Services), Officer / Lt. Cmdr. Reed is played by Richard Widmark and accompanied by a grizzled old veteran detective of the New Orleans Police Department, a captain Tom Warren, portrayed by Paul Douglas. They have only a day or two of frantic intense search and interviews in which to prevent a greater outbreak of a deadly epidemic of pneumonic plague (nicknamed from the Middle Ages / Medieval era pandemic disease in Europe known as the "Black Death"), after Reed determines a waterfront homicide victim is also an index case and the first to be found carrying the disease. Co-stars include Barbara Bel Geddes (as Reed's wife Nancy), Jack Palance (in his film debut) and Zero Mostel – the latter two play crooks, associates of the victim who had prompted the public health investigation. The film was also the debut of Tommy Rettig, (first farm boy owner of collie dog "Lassie" in 1950s TV show "Lassie" who played the Reeds' son.
The film was released later on DVD format by 20th Century Fox as part of the "Fox Film Noir collection", along with Laura and Call Northside 777, on March 15, 2005.
The score was composed by Alfred Newman.
The film was originally named Port of Entry, subsequently later as Outbreak, and ultimately Panic in the Streets.