Ed Wood version of Panic in the Streets

This is a pretty obvious rip-off of the 1950 thriller Panic in the Streets, the show of which was stolen by the debut of a young Jack Palance in the role reprised here by Vince Edwards. Worse, the appearance of Lyle Talbot makes it seems like an old Ed Wood movie but with better (but not by much) production values and writing.

As someone else said in another thread, it's fun to see old Los Angeles, but that's kind of it.