Top billed cast

1. 

   Richard Widmark

   Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.

2. 

   Paul Douglas

   Capt. Tom Warren

3. 

   Barbara Bel Geddes

   Nancy Reed

4. 

   Jack Palance

   Blackie

5. 

   Zero Mostel

   Raymond Fitch

6. 

   Dan Riss

   Neff - Newspaper Reporter

7. 

   Tommy Cook

   Vince Poldi - Younger Brother

8. 

   Wilson Bourg Jr.

   Charlie - Sailor (uncredited)

9. 

   Beverly C. Brown

   Dr. Mackey - Board of Health (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-12-27

As of March 2020, a rather apposite story of a New Orleans murderer who has a deadly plague. It falls to Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas to track down this walking petrie dish before his contagion spreads through the whole of the country. What follows is quite a quickly paced thriller with Barbara Bel Geddes as Widmark's rather pretty, but soporific gal and Jack Palance, menacing and thoughtless, portraying "Blackie" who, with Zero Mostel, is trying to help his toxic pal escape the clutches of his pursuers. The problem is that the cast are pretty wooden and don't gel especially well; it's a s...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• race against time
• new orleans, louisiana
• outbreak
• film noir
• black and white
• public health
• plague
• tense