7/10
Smallpox on the loose
12 May 2024
Diamond smuggler Evelyn Keyes (Sheila) steps off a train in New York and has Treasury Agent Barry Kelley (Johnson) on her tail. She needs to reach her musician boyfriend/husband Charles Korvin (Matt) to tell him how the operation went and rekindle their love. However, there is a problem with this as Korvin has been carrying on with Evelyn's sister Lola Albright (Francie) behind her back and has new plans of his own. However, Keyes has also brought back something deadly from Cuba.

Welcome to a film which is all too familiar in its procedural methods to tackle an epidemic. No lockdown, though. Keyes is good in the lead role as a woman determined to exact revenge and it is her film as we follow doctors and policemen in their quest to identify her as the carrier and track her down. Meanwhile, she is dying. Dying but strong-willed.

We get segments of the film where we see how easy it is to transfer the disease - eg, drinking from the water fountain in the park. Game over for the next person who uses it. I never understood people who put their mouth directly over the spout on those water fountains.
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