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  • Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
  • Release Date: 12/31/1969
  • Running Time: 93 mins
  • Director: Elia Kazan
  • Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel
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  • Writer: Richard Murphy, Elia Kazan
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  4. Edge of Darkness, 7.0 mil, 29.1 mil
  5. The Tooth Fairy, 6.5 mil, 34.3 mil
  6. When in Rome, 5.5 mil, 20.9 mil
  7. The Book of Eli, 4.8 mil, 82.2 mil
  8. Crazy Heart, 3.6 mil, 11.2 mil
  9. Legion, 3.4 mil, 34.6 mil
  10. Sherlock Holmes, 2.6 mil, 201.6 mil
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Panic in the Streets (1950)

Elia Kazan may have shot 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire mostly on studio sets, but for this nifty, underrated thriller made a year earlier he shot right on the streets of New Orleans. The result is a grimy and unusually persuasive noir, with dogged health investigator Richard Widmark and cop Paul Douglas pursuing the Patient Zero who could turn the Big Easy into a plague zone. Noir suited Kazan’s all-caps emotional pitch and exaggerated visuals down to a doomed man’s looming shadow on a railroad-jungle wall: Truth be told, I’d rather watch this again than On the Waterfront, but that’s just a Widmark fanatic’s prejudice. Watch for Jack Palance (as skeletal and stylized as a Dick Tracy villain) in his film debut and Zero Mostel. The movie screens as part of The Belcourt’s monthlong Kazan retrospective. Nov. 14-16 at The Belcourt — 

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