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Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, 1950)

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[forthegothicheroine]

New-to-me movies seen in 2022: Panic in the Streets (1950)

“If the killer has pneumonic plague, he can start spreading it in 48 hours. After that, we have a pandemic.”

#2022 movies #noirvember #panic in the streets

[thefrankshow]

Preaching To The Converted

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #black and white photography #panic in the streets #run like hell

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Movie Review | Panic in the Streets (Kazan, 1950)

There's a scene here where the police are questioning a restaurant owner, and he takes a minute to converse with his wife about whether or not he should divulge that he in fact knew the recently deceased man they were looking for and knew his associates as well. He ultimately decides against it, but there's a tortured quality to this conversation, as the man seems torn apart by the decision. And there's another scene where the main character commiserates to his wife, and while supportive and kind, she urges him to stop feeling sorry for himself. Now anybody who knows anything about director Elia Kazan knows that the biggest stain on his legacy is his decision to name names to the House Committee of Un-American Activities. This was made two years before that happened, so it isn't exactly an apologia (you'd have to turn to On the Waterfront if you're looking for that), but it might explain a little of what was going on inside his head at the time. That being said, I don't want to misrepresent this as useful only for armchair psychology, as I found those scenes quite involving on a dramatic level.

I watched this as part of the Criterion Channel's November Noir series, but it's really more of a hybrid between film noir and a more procedural epidemic thriller. The movie cuts back and forth between an officer in the US Public Health Service and a police captain as they investigate the murder of a man who carried the pneumonic plague, and the lowlifes who murdered him as they try to evade the police. The noir feel is mostly present in scenes with the latter, providing a false sense of insularity and underlining their obliviousness as they fail to realize the true motivations behind the manhunt. This movie is notable for being largely shot on location in New Orleans, likely in places the tourism board isn't too thrilled about, and the open-air quality nicely accents the runaway nature of the disease, the fact that it can't be easily contained. This is shot by Joseph MacDonald, who also shot Call Northside 777, another movie that heavily features location footage albeit to differing effect. I enjoyed that movie as well, for its straight-shooting dramatic quality and the involving relationship between James Stewart and his wife Helen Walker. Also, if you wanted to, you could read a metaphoric quality into the premise in the context of Kazan's life, but I think it plays out in too literal-minded (not in a bad way) a fashion to support such a reading.

The main character is played by Richard Widmark. I haven't seen nearly enough of his movies, but the role I associate him most strongly with is the principled lowlife he plays in Pickup on South Street. So there's a disreputable quality that he has in my eyes, so I was surprised at how compelling I found him essentially as a decent family man who cares and wants to do his job well. It helps that he has a warm presence like Barbara Bel Geddes as his wife to play off of (and between you and me, were I Widmark's character, I would find more time to spend with Bel Geddes instead of at work). But I do think essentially guileless characters like this can be tricky to make dramatically engaging, and I think the movie pulls it off. I also liked the dynamic between him and the police captain played by Paul Douglas, who plays his character with a mix of skeptical, reluctant professionalism. You do get the sense he's trying to do the right thing, even if he takes some convincing. (Of course, the level of cooperation he provides is maybe not as much as Widmark would like, but in light of how things, ahem, have been the last two years, it's pretty damn good.) And you get some classic scumbags in Jack Palance and Zero Mostel, the latter with a pitch perfect pathetic combover, and a gorgeously shot climax in a warehouse, and this is a pretty darn engaging movie.

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Panic in the Streets • Director Elia Kazan

#megans watching #panic in the streets #elia kazan

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'Panic in the Streets' – Richard Widmark vs. epidemic on Criterion Channel

‘Panic in the Streets’ – Richard Widmark vs. epidemic on Criterion Channel

Panic in the Streets (1950), directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Elia Kazan, transforms a murder mystery into an unusual film noir thriller. The hunt for a murderer takes on a deadly urgency after the victim, an illegal alien, is found to be infected with a virulent strain of the bubonic plague. Richard Widmark is the Public Health Services official who takes on the investigation when the police…

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#1950 #Barbara Bel Geddes #Blu-ray #Criterion Channel #DVD #Elia Kazan #Jack Palance #New Orleans #Panic in the Streets #Paul Douglas #Richard Widmark #Tommy Cook #VOD #Zero Mostel

[lgbtpopcult]

What to watch when...

You feel sad

Comedy I care a lot

Or

Comedy Crush

You need a scare!

Slasher horror Fear Street trilogy

Or

The haunting of Bly Manor horror series

You want to practice your Spanish

Calle y Poché: No Labels reality show

Or

Las pelotaris 1926 Spanish period action series

You want sappy romance

Love classified Hallmark movie

Or

Strawberry Panic anime

You want some action in your life!

Killing Eve crime series

Or

Harley Quinn the animated series

#lesbian #harley quinn the animated series #killing eve #girls who like girls #the haunting of bly manor #wlw #fear street #lgbtq #i care a lot #crush hulu #lgbt #bi #sapphic #tv #lgbtqia #gay #movies #calle y poche sin etiquetas #las pelotaris #strawberry panic #love classified

[howicked]

#yonderland #the elders #chief elder choop #wise elder vex #ben willbond #mathew baynton #six idiots #them there #yonderlandedit #sixidiotsedit #sitcomedit #tvedit #*panic on the streets of yonderland (02x01) #dakotasvibe #userligaya #just realized i haven't giffed the any of the elders yet

[fisheito]

wait. puss in boots rei? unfulfilled dream? as.. as in. kinda like. a last wish.? like. the last puss in boots movie.? perrito garu?????

#OK BUT ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN THE LAST PUSSBOOTS MOVIE. YOU CAN SEE IT RIGHT?? #THE REI WHO HAS LOST ALMOST ALL 9 OF HIS LIVES AND A GOOD BOY GARU TO KEEP HIM GROUNDED?? #garu who has been thru the horrors but still maintains his loving upbeat demeanour #who would throw him away. 😢 no. we take the gkaru and we cherish them #seriously my folktale knowledge is so lacking. there has to be an actual story rei is based on yes? #mumbles while reading the wiki article... helps his commoner master marry a princess? awhua??? #does that sound like something rei would want? hm. curious #i'll sit in my delusional world where rei puss in boots is the one with perrito and scawwy cool death wolf #my mind briefly entertained the idea of eiden as kitty softpaws but i couldn't imagine him fighting alongside rei at equal swordsmanship #....does REI have good swordsmanship? is he even a fighter? or is he more the type to throw flaming potions from afar #anyway yes eiden can be a street-smart smart alecky cat but can he fence? no? then no kitty softpaws for now #garu helping rei come down from a panic attack 🥺 #rei has no feather on his cap. it is JUST Father. he looks like a feather until he unfurls his true form and becomes the orb atop the cap #rei #garu

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“If the killer is incubating pneumonic plague, he can start spreading it within 48 hours.“

Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, 1950)

#films watched in 2022 #Panic in the Streets #Elia Kazan #siete #Richard Widmark #Paul Douglas #Barbara Bel Geddes #Jack Palance #Zero Mostel #Tommy Cook #Lewis Charles #Dan Riss #film noir #thriller #pandemic #crime #black and white #smoke #coffee #long shot #boat #ship

[localwebslingers]

@inhcursed asked: "trust me, if i could go to someone else, i would."

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Peter would be well within his right to slam the door in Harry's face, or call the police, anything but hear him out. It would be reasonable, it would feel justified, after everything that had happened. After Harry had gone out of his way to take Gwen and drag her into the middle of a fight she had no reason to be part of, that ended up getting her killed. After sending a list of powered and enhanced villians, ranging from actively criminal to jaded scientists, in Peter's direction to try and beat him down for good.

After Harry had tried and so very clearly wanting him dead, just because Peter had tried to keep him safe from something terrible...

The day that Harry Osborn got out of Ravencroft, either released or escaped, was something that haunted Peter. Waking nightmares that let him spiral into his own head wondering who would be hurt or killed next because of him. Driving him into keeping himself as isolated from others as possible, with only May left in his life to keep him anything close to grounded. In other ones consuming his dreams. To fill them with that same laugh and malicious, snarling grin he'd witnessed the last time they were together. All accompanied with the echos of crashing metal, explosions, and clock chimes that would cling to him until the day he really did finally die himself.

This? Harry coming to him to ask him for help once again? That wasn't even at the very bottom of the list of reasons why Peter might see his best friend- ...his former best friend, again. It felt like a sick joke from the universe, some poorly disguised plan to try and trick him in the end. A mockery of what had happened before eveything had gone so horribly wrong in the first place.

...and yet that was exactly why Peter was hesitating in the doorway, because Harry was also right. If there was anyone else, anyone in the entire city, that he could go to for help, for anything, he would. Peter should not be on that list of options. Not anymore, and yet if he was being told the truth, that's exactly where his name was. On the list. It was a sick joke, it was insane to believe. It twisted something in his chest that Peter actively tried to pretend wasn't there, even on his worst days. When he hated himself more than anything.

It also begged the question of just what the hell Harry needed help with so badly that he was willing to swallow all of that and come to see Peter.

He hadn't moved or responded for several seconds, which Peter would openly admit he felt entitled to while he debated what to do and tried to just remember to breathe. The door handle in his hand was also, probably, about to be torn off. Just from him trying to keep from cracking over the fact that he'd opened the front door to Harry Osborn. May wasn't home..that was possibly the only thing letting him even try to think rationally and calmly. Finally, he took two steps forward and closed the door behind him, keeping his eyes on Harry and somehow, finding his voice, "Alright, let's talk..."

Harry had come to him, at least possibly, for his help. Which meant he was desperate. Again. Even with five years and the death of Gwen Stacy between them, Peter couldn't bring himself to say no.

#answers #muse | peter parker(tasm) #inhcursed #[v: down at street level] #tw depression #tw panic attack

[messandamiracle]

Nami (at least in East Blue) is the only one of this ragtag group of youths who would successfully pass the driving test and get a license.

#zoro gets lost despite the dmv tester’s directions and fails #usopp panics and turns the wrong way into a one way street and fails #luffy has no idea what’s going on and fails - he shows up at the test not knowing how the pedals work #sanji tries flirting with the tester and immediately fails #like #they could drive golf carts but not actual cars #one piece #monkey d. luffy #usopp #nami #roronoa zoro #sanji

[tuff-ponyboy]

adding on to the idea that dal's room at buck's would become an urban legend, I think the same would happen for the park where bob was killed at. the swings go crazy every night just after 2 am......the fountain water supposedly turns to blood every year on the anniversary of bob's death.....parents tell their children to be home for curfew or else an old greaser ghost will get you...

#my paranoid crazy ass most definitely would do this shit #do you guys have any urban legends about your town? the high school here has an underground bunker that kids in the 70s would go down to #and do 'santanic rituals' which sounds like some satanic panic shit but it was real! #there was a book made about it....and then another book made about it... #one kid killed himself and his house burned down but a pic of him survived the fire #his friend was on Main Street and got hit in the head by a car and then another had the same thing happen in Vegas #they all had something happen to the left side of their face. like homeboy shot himself on the left side and they all got hit on the left #his grave at my city cemetery is destroyed :( which is so sad but so fucking creepy #so I'm terrified about this my whole life right? like I can't sleep bc he's gonna get me and then i read the book when I'm 19 and it was #the most edgelord ass shit I have ever read. shit pissed me off cuz everyone in town says how terrifying it is but it wasn't at all #anyway if you have read this far and want the book name it is written by the same author who wrote go ask Alice #the outsiders #the outsiders 1983 #dallas winston #johnny cade #bob sheldon #ponyboy curtis #i just be saying shit #the outsiders headcanons #my headcanons #I guess another legend is how this kid got whacked by his mom in the 80s with a hammer and died but that was very much real and tragic #I just say it's a legend cuz I grew up near the house and had to walk past it every day from school! #my mom was across the street when it happened and she saw the body bag and then my aunt asked my grandparents if they were going to kill #her and her sisters! okay wait fjdjdjdj the mom also had a hit list which was full of people in the ward (church..Mormons live here) #I love that fact tbh like it's so fucking tragic but the fact she had beef with church people and wanted them dead.....Yeah

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