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Elia Kazan may have shot 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire mostly on studio sets, but for this nifty, underrated thriller made a year earlier he shot right on the streets of New Orleans.

Although the present world is fascinating place there are times when temporary escape is not only desirable but necessary.A The princely sum of about eight dollars rented two movies about stirring events from another time and place.

The Spuyten Duyvil Library, located at 650 W. 235th St., will show Panic in the Streets, at 1 p.m. Elia Kazan's 1950 film is set in New Orleans and is about a vicious hoodlum Blackie , who along with his friends, kill an illegal immigrant they believe won too much in a card game.

But it's got glorious performances by Diane Keaton as the sister who stayed home to care for an ailing father, Meryl Streep as the sister who took off and feels edgy and defensive, and Leonardo DiCaprio as her angry son - doing some of his best work.

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Karl Malden, who died today, spoke to the MONITOR in 1959 about acting and working with directors such as Kazan and Hitchcock.