Sweaty clock ticker from Elia Kazan.
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 ...
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.
Released
Jul 27, 1950
1h 36m
Thriller, Crime
69%
Panic in the Streets
20th Century Fox
Elia Kazan
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.