Panic in the Streets
One night in barbarous hoodlum Blackie, the New Orleans slums and his buddies kill an illegal immigrant who won in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service affirms the dead person needed pneumonic plague. To protect against a devastating outbreak, Clint must find and inoculate the natives as well as their partners, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite skepticism, also in secrecy, lest panic empty the metropolis. Can a physician turn detective? He has 48 hrs to test...
Released: 1950-06-12