Panic in the Streets
One night in barbarous hoodlum Blackie the New Orleans slums and his pals kill an illegal immigrant who won at a card game. The following morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead person had pneumonic plague. Clint inoculate and has to find the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite disbelief that is official, also in secrecy, lest the town empties to prevent a devastating epidemic. Can a doctor turn detective? He's got 48 hrs to take to...
Released: 1950-06-12