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Available on iTunes. 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 ...
Directed by Elia Kazan • 1950 • United States Starring Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie (Jack Palance, in his film debut) and his friends kill an undocumented immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Clint Reed (Richard Widmark) confirms that the dead man had pneumonic plague, he must find and inoculate ...
31 de jul. de 2009 · Often taken as an allegorical panegyric for big government, Panic in the Streets nevertheless avoids the cold abstraction typical of the semi-documentaries by rendering vivid its non-studio locations in working-class and immigrant New Orleans and by giving ample screen time to the private, domestic life of Richard Widmark's harried public health official.
There's a virus on the loose in this classic film review of Panic in the Streets (1950) a medical manhunt movie directed by Elia Kazan and starring Richard W...
The Fox Film Noir DVD of Panic in the Streets looks as though it were shot yesterday, from its iconic title background shot through the windshield of a car moving down Bourbon street, to the last desperate attempt by that rat Blackie to escape the authorities. There is an extra English track in 2.0 stereo, a new adapted mix, I assume. Without star billing, Jack Palance's name appears nowhere ...
In the decades since he testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952, naming names in the. …
9 de ene. de 2000 · Kazan’s statement about the ‘method’ of Panic In The Streets is revealing for both what it does and doesn’t say. It does give a sense of the film’s fluid style, its vivid use of locations, and a certain bodily and facial expressiveness to its central performances, but, at the same time, it says little of the film’s exciting use of ...
