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English. The Killer That Stalked New York (also known as Frightened City) is a 1950 American film noir directed by Earl McEvoy and starring Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin and William Bishop. The film, shot on location and in a semi-documentary style, is about diamond smugglers who unknowingly start a smallpox outbreak in the New York City of 1947.
The Killer That Stalked New York: Directed by Earl McEvoy. With Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, Dorothy Malone. Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier.
- (1.8K)
- Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
- Earl McEvoy
- 1950-12-01
Jan 25, 2010 · The Killer That Stalked New York was completed just after the general release of Panic in the Streets (1950), a major 20th-Century-Fox production from director Elia Kazan that featured a similar plot; a criminal (Jack Palance) infected with the deadly bubonic plague is running loose in the streets of New Orleans and the police have 48 hours to catch him before an epidemic breaks out.
- Earl Mcevoy, James Nicholson
- Evelyn Keyes
Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier.-----Cast:Evelyn...
- 76 min
- 340.6K
- MOVIEHOLIC
Page 1 of 4, 8 total items. In New York, Sheila Bennet (Evelyn Keyes) and her spouse, Matt Krane (Charles Korvin), are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba ...
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- Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop
- Earl Mcevoy
- Drama
The Killer That Stalked New York (also known as Frightened City) is a 1950 film noir starring Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, Dorothy Malone. The film, shot on location and in a semi-documentary style, is about diamond smugglers who unknowingly start a smallpox outbreak in the New York City of 1947.
Sheila Bennet returns to New York from Cuba carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds - and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail, while Public Health Doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide.
