John Landis on PANIC IN THE STREETS

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Before Contagion, before Outbreak, there was this scarifying 50s germ-fest. Shot semi-documentary style on evocative New Orleans locations, Elia Kazan's sixth feature outing incorporates film noir elements into its story of US Public Health officials trying to prevent a plague from spreading through the populace via some infected criminals. Film debuts of Jack Palance and popular moppet Tommy Rettig.
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@TheSaltydog07 Год назад

Love this film. Zero Mostel and Richard Widmark, especially.

@jackgrattan1447 9 лет назад

In his autobiography, Kazan said that he considered this film noir his first TOTAL direction. Prior to this, he would direct the actors, and leave ALL the visuals to his director of photography.

@Blaqjaqshellaq Год назад

"Baby, Methuselah is younger than me tonight!" There was a similar British movie the same year, SEVEN DAYS TO NOON, except that it was about a blackmailer threatening to release a plague virus.

@sachaput 4 года назад

This was shown a couple of months ago on TCM and it was a treat. Palance is so intense and scary. Nicely done noir.

@sclogse1 3 года назад

Landis isn't entirely correct. A shot of Widmark leaving a brick building was shot on Governor's Island. My parents watched them film it. I was around, but I was five.

@alysononoahu8702 6 лет назад

Love this flick

@isuriadireja91 3 года назад

this came out in 1950, so Kazan's next flick would be A Streetcar Named Desire, not On the Waterfront... sorry, just gotta correct mr. Landis on that...can't help it.

@TheSaltydog07 Год назад

Please do, Arturo. "Asphalt Jungle" came out the same here. Excellent noir headed by Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe. :)

@isuriadireja91 Год назад

@@TheSaltydog07 love me some Asphalt Jungle myself. been so long since I saw that one. time for a rewatch. 😁

@maxthepupp 4 года назад

Eh.....I cared a little when Kate Winslet got sick in Contagion. But Panic In The Streets : Great movie! Palance was lean &mean!

@Koviklay 20 дней назад

I revisited this recently and found it less satisfying. Palance is always an interesting actor, but he's not enough to make me change my overall opinion. Then there's Barbara Bel Geddes -- an actress whom I find irritating. The only time I actually find her enjoyable to watch is in the ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS episode, "Leg of Lamb".

@JackMonroe Год назад

This guy who did the intro killed two children

@Deepdesert 12 лет назад

Contagion was pretty boring I agree.

@madahad9 12 лет назад

I agree with Mr. Landis Contagion was a bit of a bore....it was pretty predictable and needlessly grotesque in spots...and you just didn't care about these one dimensional people. I thought it was going to be about the spread of irrational fear over something that no one apart from the government knew about and would not share with the public even as they are devolving towards more animalistic behaviour. It is contrived and silly...especially the Jude Law character. And the Band On is better.

@ricardocantoral7672 7 лет назад

The older I get the more I notice that contemporary Hollywood often steals from Golden age Hollywood. For example, only a few weeks ago I saw the brilliant noir THE PROWLER and I immediately noticed that the 1992 John Kaplan film UNLAWFUL ENTRY stole the entire premise from the afformentioned film.