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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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Directed by: Elia Kazan, Joseph MacDonald, F.E. 'Johnny' Johnston
Written by: John Lee Mahin, Philip Yordan
Produced by: Sol C. Siegel
Composed by: Alfred Newman
Cast

Richard Widmark
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.

Paul Douglas
Capt. Tom Warren

Barbara Bel Geddes
Nancy Reed

Jack Palance
Blackie

Zero Mostel
Raymond Fitch

Dan Riss
Neff - Newspaper Reporter

Tommy Cook
Vince Poldi - Younger Brother

Lewis Charles
Kochak - Murder Victim (uncredited)

Elia Kazan
Cleaver - Mortuary Assistant (uncredited)

Emile Meyer
Capt. Beauclyde - Master of Nile Queen (uncredited)
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