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It moves along with a slow,
deadly earnestness
"Panic in the Streets" is unfolds over the ragged T-
somewhat misleading mains of a poker game.
The intimate sketches
many
of
and wife and father and son are real to a point of nostal- gla
title for 23 contemporary homely affection between man film because 100 people, with an eye on newspaper headlines, might connect it with Washing- ton's reaction
recent Ma cArthur indiscretions, or to the possible projec- tion of an atomic bomb on New York.
to
Actually the film deals with none of these things, and because of this, is in- teresting. It is unusual in that rats take the spot light. The story concerns the danger of an outbreak of bubonic plague in amall American city, and the efforts made by i medical man in the Cus- toms staff to avert disaster despite the unashamed sus- picions of the Police.
Brilliant direction by the Israeli, Elia Kazan, invests the film with a breathless suspense. The story is so fundamentally plain that it could be told in one reel. He extends it to the usual
length by an artistry that finds scope for exploitation in the tiniest detail.
There are some really markable shots like in tho beginning when te carries a waterside chase to dank rail way yards where stark drama
For effect he paints his pic- fures with the colours of the everyday existence, and these fleeting glimpses of the utterly familiar, under his touch, glow uncommonly well.
In A Sea Of Sceptics
Richard Wittmark, fres from his conquest of Montezu- ma, appears in a new charac- terisation. He is cast as the idyllic Customs' medicat man who, alone in a sea of sceptles, senges the peril that confronts the city. Paul
Douglas is his old. ancering self-the unbelieving Police authority who attaches no importance to plagues out- side of their relation to Re naissance intrigues and Medicl piots.
Miss Barbara Bel Geddes 15 cast is Widmark's patient makes of the young domestic wife, and a pretty picture sho
who matron
languishes home
while hor husband hero. She is ideal as the small achieves the proportions of
town wife, one of the TEATTLE Mrs Smiths whose combined strength is the backbone of a
people,
the threat of clowido
Plt these ingredients against conta- gion, against the ruthless in- ties of a gangster who suspeels that the foreigner responsible for the commotion brought with him not germs but gold, and you have the plot.
I doubt if the film will ap- pent to local audiences, for În parts it must
most 50 over heads. It moves song with a slow, deadly earnestness. Op- portunities for elaboration, abound (as they always do when a tale is straightforward) buy Mr Kazan cinnvents the perils of his trade in masterly Phyllis Thaxter, Burt Lancas-fashion.
Greenstreet on her lap
ter's slender leading lady in I find fault only with his ac- Warner Bros.' “Jim Thorpe- centuation of the danger. He All American," says her nor has tried to convey a sugges. rowest escape as an actress lion of stark calamity
about happened when Sydney Green-to be unleashed by plague. Somehow, with atomic war- street sat on her
She and Greenstreet were reture and more terrifying dan- hearsing a play. The fat Green-gers forming permanent fea- street tripped over a piece of tures of our actual landscape,
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Richard Widmark (right), who plays a customs officer, and Paul Douglas, a detective, in "Panic In The Streets," on the hunt for a man with the plague.
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Hika yourself sitting in front of an Englishman's idea of a Scots comedian dancing Highland your mirror trying out & Flings and operating a private hairstyle like Lana Turner sill in the hills beyond the wore in this, or June sheiling. Haver in that movie?
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