Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1950-07-27) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 3 nominations total |
| Screen: | Richard Murphy, Daniel Fuchs, Edna Anhalt |
| Productions: | 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | 普通话, ελληνικά, English |
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- 2746: Elia Kazan - Director - Directing
- 83905: Richard Murphy - Screenplay - Writing
- 84643: Daniel Fuchs - Adaptation - Writing
- 89803: Edna Anhalt - Story - Writing
- 70997: Edward Anhalt - Story - Writing
- 11438: Sol C. Siegel - Producer - Production
- 8503: Alfred Newman - Original Music Composer - Sound
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
Sweaty clock ticker from Elia Kazan. A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. An effective and class, little thriller directed by Elia Kazan that blends documentary realism with a race against time pulpy heart ....
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As of March 2020, a rather apposite story of a New Orleans murderer who has a deadly plague. It falls to Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas to track down this walking petrie dish before his contagion spreads through the whole of the country. What follows is quite a quickly paced thrill ....
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