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Interesting. This sounds very much like Panic In The Streets with Richard Widmark, directed by Elia Kazan.
Panicâs story: illegal immigrant, carrier of pneumonic plague, is killed by gamblers, becoming infected themselves, and must be tracked down by police as murderers and health officials as a danger to the nation.
Itâs not likely theyâre derivative, one of the other, as they both came out in 1950. Must have been something in the air (disease) at the time that got this going. Wonder if there are any other such movies from that time?
I love Panic in the Streets! Apparently, Killer That Stalked New York was ‘based’ on a big article in Cosmopolitan that came out the year before about the smallpox outbreaks in the mid 1940s. I am sure that these threats were very much on everyone’s mind during WWII – disease being one of the main results of such a huge war.
I wonder, too, about other “plague” movies. Weirdly, I had just seen the 28 Weeks movies in the last couple of weeks – and it has a similar theme, which made Killer That Stalked New York seem even more relevant and timely. The more modern we get, the more vulnerable we are to “plagues from the past”.