Panic in the Streets

THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!

Plot 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.

6.8 /10

1950

US

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