Panic in the Streets (1950)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 1
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 0
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Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. When local officials note the strange condition of the corpse, they fear that the germs will spread to epidemic proportions, and thus summon Reed to wrest control of the situation. At first facing opposition from
Jun 12, 1950 Wide
Mar 15, 2005
Twentieth Century Fox
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Cast
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Richard Widmark
Dr. Clinton Reed -
Paul Douglas
Police Capt. Tom Warren -
Barbara Bel Geddes
Nancy Reed -
Jack Palance
Blackie -
Zero Mostel
Raymond Fitch -
Dan Riss
Neff -
Alexis Minotis
John Mefaris -
Guy Thomajan
Poldi -
Edward Kennedy
Jordan -
H.T. Tsiang
Cook -
Lewis Charles
Kochak -
Ray Muller
Dubin -
Tommy Rettig
Tommy Reed -
Lenka Peterson
Jeanette -
Pat Walshe
Pat -
Paul Hostetler
Dr. Geffney -
Leo Zinser
Sgt. Phelps -
William Dean
Cortelyou -
Val Winter
Commissioner Dan Quinn -
Stanley J. Reyes
Redfield -
Emile G. Meyer
Capt. Beauclyde -
Tommy Cook
Vince Poldi -
Tiger Joe Marsh
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All Critics (20) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (1) | DVD (13)
There is vivid action, nice human touches and some bizarre moments. Jack Palance gives a sharp performance.
Top CriticA classy thriller, much less laden with significance than most Kazan movies.
[The] best and most neglected of Elia Kazan's early features.
A taut thriller with a poignant message, Panic in the Streets, which won the Oscar for Motion Picture Story, is well directed by Kazan and well acted by Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Zero Mostell (just before he was blacklisted) and others.
This is a tense, offbeat, and fairly absorbing drama.
Fine Elia Kazan drama with Richard Widmark.
Performances by Richard Widmark and Jack Palance and the New Orleans settings distinguish this not-quite-noir.
A brooding melodrama given a nice, high-end buff job.
An underrated cracker.
This comparably early Elia Kazan movie indicates just how prodigious his talents behind the camera could be.
...[features] an action-packed finale that's surprisingly tense.
Benefits immeasurably from a menacing turn by Jack Palance.
Kazan's tense thriller reminds us that Jack Palance's skin needed to get all leathery later in life to prevent his ludicrously prominent cheekbones from piercing through.
Tense and pulpy.
Realistic medical noir thriller.
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