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The Killer that Stalked New York (1950)
Topic Started: Nov 21 2011, 05:13 PM (274 Views)
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Dopey Evelyn Keyes smuggles $400,000 worth of diamonds into New York from Cuba for her worthless husband, who plans on dumping her and absconding with the dough and her sister(!). Unbeknownst to the wacky couple, though, is that Evelyn has also brought back smallpox, and while she searches Manhattan for her rotten husband, she's infecting folks with the dread disease and getting sicker and sicker herself: it's only her thirst for revenge that's keeping her alive. She thinks all the folks chasing her are cops, but half of them are doctors, you see, trailing Typhoid Evelyn.

A good little picture; I really like how in the late 1940s studios actually began okaying filming out on location, and New York City playing itself (rather than the same 'urban set of brownstowns' we're all sick of) is much appreciated here. Narrator Reed Hadley is WAY too cheery, though, and alas, much of the dialog consists of folks sprouting statistics about vaccinations and disease, just as if real folks talked that way. (Somebody does mention "the clammy hand of DEATH!", so not all the dialog is unrealistic).

The scene where Evelyn presses her lips against a playground water fountain is disgusting. I liked the mayor dressing-down the medicine-supply folks, though, telling them that when they run out of storage containers for their innoculation stuff, they'd just better cart it around in empty beer bottles.

The Killer that Stalked New York, directed by Earl McEvoy, can be found on the "Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vol. 1" set from Sony.
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Panic in the Streets uses the same basic concept to much better effect.
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