Panic in the Streets (Fox Film Noir)
by Elia Kazan
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Actor: Barbara Bel Geddes, Beverly C. Brown, H. Waller Fowler Jr., Paul Douglas, Tommy CookDirector: Elia Kazan
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Primary Contributor: Widmark, Richard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Panic in the Streets (Fox Film Noir)
Movie Review: Grim, But Great Story
Summary: 5 Stars
This is listed as a "film noir," a gangster film and I suppose it is, but it plays more like just a straight drama. It's the story of an immigrant who is infected with the pneumonic plague and the race is on to discover all the people he had come in contact with, including a criminal (Jack Palance) and his gang.
The great black-and-white cinematography helps put it in the film-noir category. It looks very good on this DVD. The angular-faced Palance, listed as "Walter Jack Palance" in here, always makes for a good villain and Zero Mostel was an interesting part of his group.
Richard Widmark played an normal intense role, except this time as a good guy, and Barbara Bel Geddes was her normal wholesome character. Frankly, I prefer Widmark as the crazy-type villain. He spends much of the time in this film as a frustrated doctor, yelling at the cop Paul Douglas. That gets tiresome after awhile.
Despite a grim story: not a whole lot of laughs here, it's very entertaining and moves fast......and the ending chase scene through warehouses and docks in New Orleans is a knockout! It's a good addition to anyone's collection of classic films, and highly recommended.
Summary of Panic in the Streets (Fox Film Noir)
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Clint Reed confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague he must find and inoculate the killers and their associates. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try ...An amazingly effective film noir action movie, shot on location in New Orleans in 1950, that has twists of plot and explosions of violence that can still make audiences gasp. Elia Kazan, of all people, directed this story of a public health worker (Richard Widmark) and a police detective (Paul Douglas) who have only a few hours in which to capture some fleeing felons who may be infected with the plague. The bad guys are played, with enormous relish, by Jack Palance and Zero Mostel, the latter only a few years before Kazan ratted him out to the House Un-American Activities Committee. In retrospect, this modest crime picture looks like a crucial turning point in the formation of Kazan's distinctive style, a clear precursor to the blistering location work of landmark films like On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, and America, America. --David Chute
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