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  Panic In The Streets (1950)
Panic in the Streets appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
The stereo track for Panic in the Streets wasn’t one of the crummiest of these presentations, but it showed some of the problems typical of their redone audio.
A film noir with a theme that remains timely, Panic in the Streets eschews the usual “hunt for a killer” topic.
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 Panic in the Streets
Panic In The Streets emanates from that brief moment in Kazan's career after he broke free from the theatrical and studio constraints of his early work and before he took up the more hyperbolic adaptations of Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, et.
Refreshingly, it proves to be of little use to read Panic In The Streets within a particular social and political rubric other than as a means to situate and to some degree motivate its investigation into the seedy working-class ethnic melting pot of New Orleans.
Panic In The Streets is essentially a relatively breezy film with a superficially serious subject matter.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Panic in the Streets at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In passing, "Panic in the Streets" is sarcastic about the business leaders of New Orleans, though presenting public officials (mayor, police captain, public health doctor) in very favorable lights.
"Panic in the Streets" opens in very noir style with a long tracking shot through the streets and into a seedy-looking hotel where a poker game involving Blackie, a gangster (Jack Palance in his first movie role), two of his henchmen Fitch and Poldi (Zero Mostel and Tommy Cook).
1950), the city and country are saved (ditto), there is not mass "panic in the streets," and credit goes where credit is not due (to the local health politician).
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 DVDFILE.COM: Laura - Panic in the Streets - Call Northside 777 Review
Panic in the Streets is a bit more difficult to grasp firmly, but Elia Kazan is nevertheless able to infuse the film with enough New Orleans mood to make you think Bourbon Street itself is smoking out of your DVD player.
What Panic in the Streets has that the other two titles included here don't necessarily tap into is a sense of overwhelming social anxiety.
Panic in the Streets only houses a screen-specific audio commentary and a theatrical trailer (as well as a look at other Fox Noir titles: Call Northside 777, House of Bamboo, Laura, and The Street With No Name), but the commentary is quite nice.
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 Before "Waterfront": Visual Arts: Joel Wicklund: CenterstageChicago.com
Usually relegated to the second tier of Kazan's features, "Panic in the Streets" was actually a stylistic breakthrough for a director previously known for his tasteful literary and theatrical approach.
More than simply proving he was not stagebound as a director, "Panic in the Streets" announced Kazan as the leader of a movement that would open up Hollywood's "dream factory" to bold visions of real life, warts and all.
Fox's "Panic in the Streets" DVD offers excellent image and sound quality and includes a feature-length audio commentary by Alain Silver and James Ursini, editors of the well-respected "Film Noir Reader," as well as trailers for the movie and other film noir releases from the studio.
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 Paul Douglas (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He also played Richard Widmark's police partner in the thriller Panic in the Streets (1950), Porter Hollingsway in A Letter to Three Wives, Sgt. Kowalski in The Big Lift, Josiah Walter Dudley in Executive Suite, etc. In 1950, Douglas was the host of the 22nd Annual Academy Awards.
Douglas was cast in the 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Mighty Casey", a role written for him by Rod Serling, based on his character in Angels in the Outfield, but Douglas died the same week the episode was to be filmed.
He was married five times, last to actress Jan Sterling from 1950 until his death, by whom he had a son, Adams Douglas.
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Panic in the Streets (1950): Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as a city medical officer, racing against time to stop a plague epidemic.
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.
Though Elia Kazan liked to claim that much of Panic in the Streets was improvised, there was a script, adapted by Richard Murphy and Daniel Fuchs from a story by Edward Anhalt and Edna Anhalt.
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 PANIC IN THE STREETS - DVD
Because there are a few too many inconsistencies, one couldn't call Panic in the Streets a masterpiece: Widmark's refusal to blow the whistle seems bizarre when the police can simply block off the city, while a few other plot developments are a tad rich to actually believe.
Fox's DVD release of Panic in the Streets (under their "Fox Film Noir" imprimatur) is just ever so slightly imperfect.
To be sure, the full-frame image is satisfactory; although there's a slight indistinctness with some backlit shots and a hint of murkiness in the darkest shots, it's mostly smooth sailing.
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 Amazon.ca: Panic In The Streets: DVD: Elia Kazan,Barbara Bel Geddes,Lewis Charles,Tommy Cook,Paul Douglas,Edward ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Panic in the Streets featured a mesmerizing performance from Richard Widmark as the doctor called in to investigate a mysterious death who becomes entangled in a sinister plot.
Kazan's loose style with actors was innovative for 1950, and he would continue to hone his direction of "method" acting in the next several years with such films as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and East of Eden.
Somewhat overlooked in the filmography of Elia Kazan, "Panic in the Streets" is nonetheless a riveting, atmospheric thriller that is among the best film noirs.
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 Panic In The Streets (1950) - Channel 4 Film review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The post-mortem shows that he was suffering from plague, and it's likely that his killers (Mostel and Palance), are now carriers themselves.
Panic In The Streets is one of those films where the subtext is as captivating as the drama.
The plot's plague scare device has more direct significance post 9/11 than it did in 1950.
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In addition, Panic in the Streets is notable for being one of Kazan's favorite films of his.
He considered it to be his first "real" film, or as DVD commentators Ursini and Silver put it: the film where Kazan "made the transition from a director of performances to a director of films".
Donald Melanson is the founder and editor-in-chief of Mindjack and a freelance writer for hire.
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 Edward Anhalt Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After a stint at Twentieth Century Fox during which they earned an Oscar for the screen story to the urban thriller "Panic in the Streets" (1950), the husband and wife team returned to Columbia as writer-producers.
Perhaps their most notable effort was the 1952 screen version of Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding" which preserved the stage performances of Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde and Ethel Waters.
Three years later, he scripted the Frank Sinatra vehicle "Contract on Cherry Street" (NBC) and contributed to the small screen remake of "Madame X" (NBC, 1981) and the biblically inspired "The Day Christ Died" (CBS, 1982).
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 Elia Kazan's " Panic in the Streets " - Fox - Region 1 - NTSC
Elia Kazan's " Panic in the Streets " - Fox - Region 1 - NTSC
Elia Kazan's 'Panic in the Streets' has Richard Widmark playing Dr. Clinton Reed of the US Public Health Service who is chasing down a 'carrier' named Blackie (typical Jack Palance roles).
He is one of a remaining few carrying the pneumonic plague, a deadlier airborne version of bubonic plague.
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 Amazon.com: Panic in the Streets: DVD: Barbara Bel Geddes,Beverly C. Brown,Tommy Cook,Paul Douglas,H. Waller Fowler ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Finally you may find important clues the are linked with "On the waterfront" ; the use of a fluid camerawork, the incisive dialogues and a sense of fevered rhythm that will lead the viewer in an anguishing and effective climax.
Well, in the case of "Panic in the Streets", a little more respect for the audience.
Dramatic, exciting, and very entertaining, I recommend "Panic in the Streets," the third entry in the "Fox Film Noir" series, to all film noir and classic cinema buffs.
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 DVDFanatic.com News: 04/04/05 - DVD REVIEW: "Panic in the Streets"
Panic in the Streets (1950), has a plot that sounds nitty gritty enough to support that film noir definition.
Panic would best be classified as a crime potboiler with moral aspirations.
The Panic in the Streets DVD is short on extras as compared to the impressive DVD riches of Laura, with only a theatrical trailer and an audio commentary by historians James Ursini and Alain Silver as disc supplements.
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 Panic in the Streets - Moviefone
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Panic in the Streets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Richard Widmark stars as a public-health officer who diagnoses an unidentified homicide victim as infected with a contagious strain of plague that would have killed him in days had his murderer not intervened.
Panic in the Streets is well-paced and superbly acted, but what really stands out are the uncommon touches by Kazan and screenwriters Daniel Fuchs and Richard Murphy that break the facade of movie artificiality common to titles of this period.
Fox presents Panic in the Streets in a nice-looking full-frame transfer (1.33:1 OAR) from a pleasant fl-and-white source print with both the original monaural soundtrack and a new stereo remix.
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 Jack Palance at Brian's Drive-In Theater
For his first film, he was cast in the a plum role of the plague-infected murderer Blackie in the film noir thriller Panic in the Streets (1950; with Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas).
But he returned to Hollywood when, based on the strength of his performance in Panic in the Streets, RKO cast him in the Joan Crawford noir vehicle Sudden Fear (1952; with Gloria Grahame).
Panic in the Streets (1950) with Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Zero Mostel
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 The Mafia Boss: Jack Palance
In his first film (billed as Walter Jack Palance), Elia Kazan's tingling Panic in the Streets (1950), the actor made a definite impression, as a plague-carrying fugitive hunted by military physician Richard Widmark.
Following Halls of Montezuma (1950), he got to menace Joan Crawford in Sudden Fear (1952) and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
He received a second nomination for his unforgettable portrayal of a pathological gunfighter in Shane (1953), and won an Emmy for Best Actor as the prizefighter in "Requiem for a Heavyweight" on CBS' "Playhouse 90" (1956).
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 barbara bel geddes actress
Other notable movie roles included Elia Kazan drama Panic in the Streets (1950), Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo (1958), and The Five Pennies opposite Danny Kaye in 1959.
Other notable films starring Bel Geddes include "Panic in the Streets" (1950) directed by Elia Kazan; Alfred Hitchcock's classic mystery thriller "Vertigo" (1958); and "The Five Pennies" (1959) opposite Danny Kaye.
Though she achieved immediate success in films, Bel Geddes also continued to tread the boards on Broadway, as the theatre was her first love.
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 Style Weekly : Richmond's alternative for news, arts, culture and opinion
Most of the time this column is not concerned with rereleases of older movies, but a recent example struck me because of its relation to current events.
The movie is “Panic in the Streets” (1950), a transitional film by the director Elia Kazan, who was moving from comparatively stiff studio-bound pictures to his more ambitious works, including “On the Waterfront.” “Panic in the Streets” (rereleased on DVD in March) is about a modern-day disaster threatening to destroy a city.
The disease in “Panic in the Streets” is a thinly veiled symbol for the spread of communism.
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 NIH Record-7-14-98--Science in the Cinema Series Resumes, July 23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Panic in the streets will take place at NIH on Thursday evening, July 23.
We're talking about Panic in the Streets, the 1950 Elia Kazan film about a Public Health Service doctor who tries to track down a killer who may be carrying the plague.
John Parascandola, PHS historian, will comment after the screening of Panic in the Streets.
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 UAlbany School of Public Health - Info for Current Students - GSO
December's movie is "Panic in the Streets" produced and directed by Elia Kazan.
This is a noir thriller in the Fox studio's docu-drama style of the late 1940s.
- "Panic In the Streets" by Adrian Danks, Senses of Cinema
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 Panic in the Streets (1950)
I'm not sure why this would have been a hot topic in 1950, but it attracted a director of the calibre of Elia Kazan and a top-quality production from 20th Century Fox.
Perhaps it was intended as a metaphor: a plague of foreigners or even a plague of Commie subversives.
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 dOc DVD Review: Panic in the Streets (1950) - Printable
But Panic in the Streets was crucial to him getting there; it's not an especially highbrow undertaking, which in fact for Kazan may have been the point.
With its keen visuals and filmed entirely on location, though, it's a story told largely through pictures, and it holds up as a taut bit of filmmaking.
It's a solid movie in its own right, but may almost be more interesting for the light it sheds on the significant work by the director that would soon follow.
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 Tommy Cook - Biography - Moviefone
In films since 1942's The Tuttles of Tahiti, Cook was briefly placed under contract by Columbia.
In his late teen years, he signed with 20th Century Fox, playing substantial roles in films like An American Guerilla in the Philippines (1950) and Panic in the Streets (1950).
Drifting out of acting in the mid-'50s, Tommy Cook went on to become a professional tennis player and traveling-show entrepreneur.
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