

Panic in the Streets
"THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!"
Overview
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.
Movie Details
Languages
Mandarin
+2 more
Studio
20th Century Fox
Key Crew

Elia Kazan
Director

Edward Anhalt
Story

Sol C. Siegel
Producer

John Lee Mahin
Writer

Philip Yordan
Writer
Cast

Richard Widmark
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.

Paul Douglas
Capt. Tom Warren

Barbara Bel Geddes
Nancy Reed

Jack Palance
Blackie

Zero Mostel
Raymond Fitch

Dan Riss
Neff - Newspaper Reporter

Tommy Cook
Vince Poldi - Younger Brother
Wilson Bourg Jr.
Charlie - Sailor (uncredited)
Beverly C. Brown
Dr. Mackey - Board of Health (uncredited)

Lewis Charles
Kochak - Murder Victim (uncredited)
Herman Cottman
Officer Scott - Police Lab (uncredited)
John David
Fruit Salesman (uncredited)
William A. Dean
Cortelyou (uncredited)
Robert Dorsen
Coast Guard Lieutenant (uncredited)
George Ehmig
Kleber - Medical Examiner Technician (uncredited)
H. Waller Fowler Jr.
Mayor Murray (uncredited)
Paul Hostetler
Lt. Paul Gafney M.D. - Public Health Service (uncredited)

Elia Kazan
Cleaver - Mortuary Assistant (uncredited)
Edward Kennedy
Jordan (uncredited)
Mary Liswood
Angie Fitch - Raymond's Wife (uncredited)