Directed by Elia Kazan | Starring: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.

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