The Killer That Stalked New York | |
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Directed by | Earl McEvoy |
Screenplay by | Harry Essex |
Based on | "Smallpox, the Killer That Stalks New York" 1948 Cosmopolitan article by Milton Lehman |
Produced by | Robert Cohn |
Starring | Evelyn Keyes Charles Korvin William Bishop |
Narrated by | Reed Hadley |
Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc (as Joseph Biroc) |
Edited by | Jerome Thoms |
Music by | Hans J. Salter (as Hans Salter) |
Production company | Robert Cohn Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 79 minutes 76 minutes (Encore-Mystery Library Print) |
Country | United States |
Language | 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. It is based on the real threat of a smallpox epidemic in the city, as described in a story taken from a 1948 Cosmopolitan magazine article.[1]