Panic In The Streets

This film is not currently available on DVD. Film Description Cited by Kazan as a personal favourite, this deliciously dark film is an influential film noir classic shot entirely on location and with conventions of documentary filmmaking to lend the film a gritty realism. When the victim of a gangland killing is found to have a pneumonic plague, a medical officer forms an alliance with a police chief to hunt down and exterminate the infected murderers before the epidemic spreads through the city.

Film Details Director Elia Kazan Starring Jack Palance, Richard Widmark, Zero Mostel, Paul Douglas   Country USA Language ENGLISH   Year 1950

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Review by Amina Ali on 1st September 2006

An amazing movie about two youngsters who are mixed up with drugs. These two heroin addicts realise what they get them selves into and as the spiral deeper and deeper they think the only way out is suicide. Amazing movie and excellent acting from Al Pacino and Kitty Winn definitely a must-see movie before you die. I give it a 10 out of 10.

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