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Panic in the Streets
Crime, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy urgent procedural suspense, grimy urban atmosphere, and moral pressure intensified by an invisible public threat.
- Tone
- tense, dread, bleak
- Payoff
- unease, adrenaline
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- epidemic threat, civic responsibility, social stigma, time pressure, urban poverty
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, crowded waterfront city and public-health facilities
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