Panic in Echo Park (1977)
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
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It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.
.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
PANIC IN ECHO PARK basically features an heroic black doctor (Dorian Harewood) going up against white corruption in Los Angeles when he discovers who was really behind water in a local downtown building becoming polluted leading to a contagion at his hospital. This TV movie also has a "fight the powers that be" theme underlying it. Not bad of its type.
Good showcase for the grievously underappreciated Dorian Harewood as a young doctor fighting entrenched power to uncover and defeat an epidemic in a poor neighborhood. You can guess how most of this goes: the young, handsome doctor is loved by those around him, he realizes there's an epidemic, he has to go around making increasingly impassioned speeches to bureaucrats and older superiors who discount his theories, etc. And don't forget the happy ending with everyone smiling at each other. It's a lot like many episodes of "Quincy" (except for the handsome part) and many other movies from the Seventies, but this one is pretty well done. It beats fishing shows, infomercials, and hicks turning left (aka NASCAR) for Sunday afternoon viewing, at any rate.