Panic in the Streets
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Panic in the Streets

1950Movie1 h 36 minNR1 award

CrimeThriller
84
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.2Letterboxd3.6/5Rotten Tomatoes97%77%
84
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.2Letterboxd3.6/5Rotten Tomatoes97%77%

Summary

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.

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  • Date night
  • Friends night
  • Teens

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  • Keeps you on edge.
  • Keeps you guessing.
  • Puts you inside a crime.

Not for laughs or comfort.

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The Black DeathRare · in 48 titlesPneumonic plague. The more famous bubonic plague, which concentrates in the lymph nodes and killed off a third of Europe in the 14th century, is bad enough.Back-Alley Doctorin 275 titlesStrongly implied to be the case with the shady doctor that Blackie calls for Poldi, who obviously is less concerned with helping Poldi than he is with helping Blackie get what he wants.All 24 tropes

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