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Elia KazanPanic In The Streets (1950)

Not to be confused with the later (1972) version, which is copyrighted, this one is PD
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042832/
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie (Jack Palance) and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed (Richard Widmark-this time not seen pushing little old ladies in wheelchairs down the stairs) of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren (Paul Douglas), despite official skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empty the city. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try. Spellbinding


This movie is part of the collection: Film Noir

Director: Elia Kazan
Producer: Elia Kazan
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Keywords: plague; Oscar; Richard Widmark; Jack Palance; New Orleans

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: keygrip - - August 15, 2009
Subject: A quality film
An excellent cast makes this film very watchable.
Richard Widmark was approaching his peak,and Walter Jack was finding his feet as one of the screens top bad guys. It was also interesting to see Tommy Rettig,top child actor of the 50's, early in his career and uncredited as Widmark's son.
High marks all round

Reviewer: enola - - July 8, 2009
Subject: Must see!
Wonderful movie, wish they still made them like this. Palance and Widmark at their finest!

Reviewer: inselpeter - - July 8, 2009
Subject: Great Flick!
Palance is incredible. Bel Geddes is solid and fetching. Some wonderful direction by Kazan and fascinating photography: Mostel (who is, at times, weak and, times, perfect) emerges at least twice from shadow in a very interesting, if almost distracting, way - typical of the director, but effective and startling. Fabulous final chase sequence.

Reviewer: jammyb"stard - - February 22, 2009
Subject: Palance is El Hombre
Solid noirish thriller well directed by Kazan though I didnt find Mostels performance convincing. Widmark was as dependable as ever but it is Blackie played by Jack Palance who steals it for me. He is at times charming,paronoid,generous,vicious and utterly convincing,the scene on the bed where he cradles his dying crony is terrific and then of how he discards him afterwards is,although not unexpected,still quite shocking in its expediency.There is a lovely little image, by Id say Kazan, of Blackie (Black Death ,geddit?) climbing up the mooring rope of the ship just like the disease ridden,plague carrying rat that he is. Exactly what I love about Internet Archive thanks for uploading.

Reviewer: matt1900 - - January 2, 2009
Subject: 5 star
This is just a great movie. Good story and great acting.

Reviewer: vaagheid - - March 29, 2008
Subject: R.I.P. Richard Widmark
pretty descent.

Reviewer: billbarstad - - November 16, 2007
Subject: Don't miss it!
Now this is good entertainment! I downloaded the 700MB file. I wish it had been of better quality, although it is good enough to watch and the audio is fine.

Reviewer: Accountant - - October 14, 2007
Subject: Film Noir
This excellent 1950 film was a warm-up for Eliz Kazan's academy award winning "On the Waterfront" to come a few years later.
The picture is also a great example of 1940's and '50's film noir. Enjoy the genre.

Reviewer: bearpuf - - October 8, 2007
Subject: A Decent Panic Movie
Pneumonic (that's what they said) Plague threatens New Oreleans and the city is in for a catastrophe unless Richard Widmark (the city's federal health inspecter) can convince the easy going police chief (Paul Douglas) that he hasn't seen enough disaster movies.
Jack Palance, billed as 'Walter Jack Palance' makes his major motion picture debut as a chisel-jawed sleeze. I enjoyed this film for the visual noiriness as well watching Palance, Widmark and Douglas do their very decent acting.

Reviewer: DraconianGuy - - October 8, 2007
Subject: Query
RadioFreePeru wrote:

"The other "version" has nothing to do with the 1950 film, it was actually the name of a 'Temperatures Rising TV episode' ..."

According to the IMDB and elsewhere, that episode was called "Panic in the Sheets" -- a wordplay on the movie's title, as befits a comedy series set in a hospital.

(((My previous post read:

"Not to be confused with the later (1972) version, which is copyrighted ..."

Which version would that be? The IMDB has no record of it.)))

Reviewer: RadioFreePeru - - October 8, 2007
Subject: Clarification
The other "version" has nothing to do with the 1950 film, it was actually the name of a "Temperatures Rising TV episode"
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=panic%20in%20the%20streets&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&PID=1905&SEQ=20071008083658&SID=1