For us young ones who only remember Jack Palance from his aged turns in Batman, those one-armed push-ups at the Oscars or that Skin Bracer commercial in which he urged viewers to agree that “confidence is very sexy,” it’s startling to see him, in his first movie role, as the spindly villain of the bioterror/noir Panic in the Streets. The dude’s 6'4" with a rasp and sharply angled face custom-hewn for a black-and-white thriller. Very sexy, in a sinister fashion.