Panic in the Streets (1950)

11/17/06

Panic in the Streets: This Elia Kazen helmed film noir concerns the efforts a doctor from the 'U.S. Public Health Service' (Richard Widmark) and a New Orleans police captian (Paul Douglas) to prevent an outbreak of bubonic plague, brought into the country by an illegal immegrant. Barbara Bel Geddes plays Widmarks wife, and Jack Palance and Zero Mostel are two bit hoods unknowingly infected with the plague. I enjoyed this movie, it's inovative and unlike any other film noir I've seen. Excellent use of source music. This movie is begging to remade in the post 9/11 world.