23. The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
The Killer That Stalked New York is a noir movie, shot in a semi-documentary style, about diamond smugglers who unwittingly start a smallpox outbreak in the New York City of 1947.
The movie sees police searching for a smuggler while doctors desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier – with both parties unaware that they’re the same person.
It was inspired by a 1948 article in Cosmopolitan magazine about the real threat of a smallpox epidemic in the city.
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