Panic in the Streets

...an extraordinarily stylish, carefully wrought depiction of a hypothetical—the Contagion of its time. Kazan called it “the only perfect film I made,”...

...Elia Kazan makes atmospheric, pseudo-documentary use of his New Orleans locations and draws naturalistic performances from a fine ensemble.

Elia Kazan's 1950 film noir, in which the noir element refers not to the darkness at the heart of humanity (...) but instead a potential outbreak of pneumonic Black Death plague in New Orleans...

This is a tense, offbeat, and fairly absorbing drama which has to do with modern New Orleans and an ancient medical scourge, the pneumonic plague.