Panic in the Streets
Turkish title: Caniler sokağı
“THE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR!”
1950 · 1 h 36 min
Directed by 
Elia Kazan
Elia KazanCast
Richard Widmark 
Paul Douglas 
Jack Palance
Credits
Written by: Richard Murphy
Plot
A health officer hunts a carrier of plague through New Orleans.
Sinekatalog’s take
Elia Kazan's New Orleans noir has a health officer racing to find a plague carrier. Fast and tense with real locations, with Richard Widmark and Jack Palance excellent, it is a taut manhunt thriller.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (9,646 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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