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Panic In The Streets The following telegram from Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck to President Spyros P. Skouras gives the best appraisal of “Panic In The Street”, a revealing drama produced by Sol C. Siegel: “I want to go on record now as saying that this is the hardest hitting melodrama of the year and (Elia) Kazan has once again done a phenomenal job of direc- tion. Kichard Hid mark. Paul Douglas and Barbara Del Geddes are out of this world. It knocks you cold.It is fresh, original, and, in my opinion, is one of the really superb attractions of the year.” Wholly filmed in New Orleans by Director Kazan who will be recalled as the Academy Award winner for his “Gentlemen’s Agreement”, last year "Panic In The Streets”is a screenplay written by Kichard Murphy from an adaptation by Daniel Fuchs of a story by Edna and Edward Anhalt. Given a semi-documentary treat- ment, it deals with the efforts of the police and the IJ.S. Public Health Service to run down a murderer infected with a virulent form of dread bubonic plague. The health of the entire city is menaced! How this is accomplished develops, perhaps, the most astounding drama cinematically constructed. “Panic In The Streets”, formerly titled “Outbreak” finds this studio crossing another barrier in the for- ward march of the screen. Richard Widmark plays Dr. Reed, local head of the E.S. Public Health Service who discovers the plight of a big city’s population and who embarks on the most extraordinary manhunt in the annals of crime and medicine. Paul Douglas is the two-fisted, co-operating and outraged local police captain. Barbara Del Geddes is Dr. Reed’s wife. Others in major roles are Walter (Jack) Palance as as the small-time gangster, whose murder of a fellow Armenian brings about the startling discovery. Zero Mostel, recent star of “Inside U.S.A.” and "Call Me Mister”, makes his screendebut as a henchman. Others in the cast include Dan Riss, Alexi Minotis, Guy Tho- majan, H.T. Tsiang, Tommy Cook, Edward Kennedy and many others. Top of page Paul Douglas and Richard Widmark try to force a hoodlum to disclose the identity of a killer infected with a dread disease menacing the health of an entire city. Center, left, Barbara Del Geddes who plays Widmark's patient wife. Across bottom of page two “dock-rats” cautiously and murderously catch up with their prey.