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Many of the actors in Panic in the Streets are local nonprofessionals, selected by director Elia Kazan because of their "rightness" within the framework of the story; the rest of the cast is peopled by such film veterans as Barbara Bel Geddes, Tommy Cook, Emile Meyer and H.T. Tsiang.
Available on iTunes. Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. When local officials note the strange ...
11 de sept. de 2010 · The "Panic" screenplay would go on to win an Oscar, but the more important legacy of the film would be what came next: Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' New Orleans-set drama "A Streetcar ...
10 de ago. de 2012 · Elia Kazan's cold-war drama was filmed on location in New Orleans. It starred Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, and a host of locals. Read...
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31 de jul. de 2009 · Often taken as an allegorical panegyric for big government, Panic in the Streets nevertheless avoids the cold abstraction typical of the semi-documentaries by rendering vivid its non-studio locations in working-class and immigrant New Orleans and by giving ample screen time to the private, domestic life of Richard Widmark's harried public health official.
Directed by Elia Kazan • 1950 • United States Starring Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie (Jack Palance, in his film debut) and his friends kill an undocumented immigrant who won too much in a card game.
PANIC IN THE STREETS calls for complete trust in a U.S. Public Health Service man. The notion that government experts know best has lost traction in modern times with a large section of skeptical Americans, but the premise still works based upon the film's monomythic underpinnings, which is to say one moral individual can make a huge difference in a murky sea of incomprehension and disbelief.
