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Run Time: 1h 36m.

IMDb: 7.2 / 10.

Genre: film-noir movies | drama movies | crime movies

Release year: 1950.

Story: A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.

When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, its pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. The police surgeon notices that the man is also displaying other symptoms and Lt. Commander Clint Reed, a doctor with the U.S. Public Health Service, diagnoses a highly contagious disease, pneumonic plague. He tries to convince local officials to find everyone who may have been in contact with the dead man. The Mayor supports his efforts but many, including the police, are doubtful. Reed wants to avoid publicity so as not to panic the public. They have little information to go on - they dont know the dead mans identity - and Reed estimates they have 48 hours before disease begins to spread. With police Capt. Tom Warren going through the motions, Reed sets out to find the killers.

What starts out as a routine autopsy for the New Orleans Medical Examiner, the person on the table being a John Doe found shot dead on the docks probably by some criminal element, turns into something more serious when he finds that the victim was also suffering with pneumonic plague which would have killed him in hours regardless. Lt. Commander Clinton Reed with the Public Health Service, leading the case, has to convince those in authority of the seriousness of the situation as those who came in contact with the dead man, most specifically those who killed him, will be infectious with the plague after forty-eight hours. Reed also knows that although it may assist in discovering the identities of the victim and who killed him, they cannot issue a public warning both not to ensue panic and not to have the killer(s) escape which would spread the plague uncontrollably if they are able. Capt. Tom Warren with the NOPD, he assigned the lead investigator for the police, is among the ranks of the unconvinced, he doing his job regardless. As Reed and Warren follow whatever scant leads they, Reed on the medical science side and Warren from the police procedural side, they have to decide how far they will go outside their authority to apprehend the criminal(s) and contain the plague. Their task may be made even more difficult as reporters see what the police are up to and may not want to suppress the information if they find out whats going on. Meanwhile, three men were involved in the mans death, he, Kolchak, a sailor having just arrived in town. Blackie, the leader of the three men, he seeing that the police are making monumental efforts to find Kolchaks killer, has other self-interested thoughts beyond just evading the police.

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Richard Widmark
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton Reed

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