Stars: Richard Widmark,
Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel
Director: Elia Kazan
Film
noir, a
classic film style of the '40s
and '50s,
is noted for
its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast
lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells
realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and moral
conflict.
In this suspenseful melodrama, a
bullet-ridden corpse turns up in
the water
off the New
Orleans docks. To the police,
he's a
John Doe...until a
public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a
virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are mobilized to
track down the killers
and all
who had contact with the dead
man in a
desperate race against the clock
before the highly
contagious disease spreads far beyond the port
area and puts
the entire
country in
peril.
Format: Full Screen
Special Features: Audio
Commentary, Theatrical Trailer, Interactive Menus, Scene Selections
Languages: English (Dolby
Digital Stereo) (Dolby
Digital Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital Mono)
Subtitles: English,
Spanish
Sides: 1
Layers: Dual
Running Time: 96
minutes
Rated: Not Rated
Company: 20th Century Fox
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