Panic in the streets (China Version)
Film nior,a classic film style of the '40s and '50s ,is notedifor its dark themes ,stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting .Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films,film nior tells realistic stories about crime,mystery,femme fatales and moral confilct.
In this suspenseful melodrama,a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks.To the police ,he'sia John Doe....until a public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a virulent strain of bubonic plague.Hundreds of officers are mobilized to teack down the killers and all who had contact with the dead man in a desperate race against theiclock before theihighly contagious disease spreads far beyong the port area and puts the entire country in peril.
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