Panic in the Streets (Fox Film Noir) | Barbara Bel Geddes, Beverly C. Brown

Panic in the Streets (Fox Film Noir) | Barbara Bel Geddes, Beverly C. Brown | Panic in the Streets

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Panic in the Stree...

	Panic in the Streets (Fox Film Noir) Barbara Bel Geddes, Beverly C. Brown 20th Century Fox, 2005 average customer review:based on 34 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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 ...

THE BEST!

The obvious plot-line is the plague in New Orleans. But, I have always seen it as a sweet love affair between characters of Barbara and Richard. Irrespective of the 'Panic in the Streets,' life goes on! The cast is superb; Walter Jack PALANCE is the epitome of the psychotic 'heavy' (watch his mood swings that happen in a second or two!) -- Zero Mostel as the cowardly hanger-on; Paul Douglas as the straight-shooter cop out of his depth.

The CENTER, however, is the marital contract between Widmark's and Geddes' characters -- never so endearingly portrayed on film.

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Panic in the Streets

Breathlessly exciting film is one of the best manhunt pictures ever made, with the plague twist adding an extra jolt of tension. Kazan's peerless on-location shooting never obscures the terrific acting from the four central characters, comprising both hunters and hunted. Palance is positively magnetic. Don't miss this one.

A classic thriller

I saw this one first years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it! As a film buff, there are some great actors and character actors in this film: Richard Widmark as a "good guy", Jack Palance, Zero Mostel and one of my favorites, totally under-rated his whole career---Paul Douglas. As a person with a medical background, I found the plot of a potential plague infesting New Orleans fascinating, and not too far-fetched. It's classic noir: gritty, grainy, inner-city dirty sets and some great clipped dialogue. Add it to your "noir" collection.

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Great Acting & A Good Story!

This is definitely a "good-guys vs. bad-guys" drama, set in old New Orleans. It includes notable performances by both Barbara Bel Geddes and Jack Palance. The spectre of an epidemic will keep the viewer intrigued, as the clock continues to tick...

New Orleans Noir Works

It was interesting and clever that director Elia Kazan used the New Orleans docks as the backdrop for this gritty noir film that features actor Jack Palance's movie debut. Shot on location with many non-professional locals in acting roles that required scenes featuring their own occupations, Panic in the Streets, is an intense montage of classic noir images. Darkened alleys, seedy coffee shops, and one night boarding houses add to the realism that the New Orleans docks brings to the film's shadowy cinematography. Kazan uses extended long shots and heightened contrasts of dark and light to amplify scenes that are dominated by hopeless characters trapped in low level crime. Richard Widmark gives a credible performance as the doctor who is trying to alert the city's bureaucracy of an impending pandemic caused by a mysterious drifter who spends a night of card playing with local hustlers headed by Blackie ( Jack Palance). Blackie is a menacing character played to the hilt by Palance. Zero Mostel plays one of Blackie's sycophants who urgently seeks his bosses approval by appeasing his every whim. The final chase scene is shot and edited beautifully. The liner notes on the DVD add interesting facts about the making of the film, particularly Widmark's recollection of the ending fight scene. According to Widmark, Palance substituted a real gun, when a prop rubber gun should have been used. Widmark was hit on the head and was out for 20 minutes. Did he say anything to Palance? Watch the film and you will see why Widmark let it slide. Barbara Bel Geddes,another Hollywood blacklisted actor, gives a refreshing coy performance as Widmark's wife in the few key scenes of domesticity that are rarely evident in noir films.

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