The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

19501h 16mdir. Earl McEvoyUnited Statesfilm noir

With Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, Dorothy Malone, Lola Albright, Carl Benton Reid, Ludwig Donath, Art Smith, Whit Bissell

Directed by Earl McEvoy

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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 by Milton Lehman.

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