re: Best Louisiana themed movie?

A great La movie most people here probably aren't familiar with:

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One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie (Jack Palance) and his friends kill an illegal alien who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed (Richard Widmark) of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren (Paul Douglas), despite official skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empty the city. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try.

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Not only is this a taut noir thriller (directed by Elia Kazan, who would make A Streetcar Named Desire the next year), but it was filmed entirely on location -- giving us a priceless visual record of 1949 New Orleans.

You can watch Panic In The Streets online here.