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Mystery Street (1950)

Directed by John Sturges

Film Noir | Crime

Overview

When a young woman’s skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman’s identity, how she died, and who killed her.

Length 93 minutes

Actors

Ricardo Montalban | Sally Forrest | Bruce Bennett | Elsa Lanchester | Marshall Thompson | Jan Sterling | Edmon Ryan | Betsy Blair | Wally Maher | Ralph Dumke | Willard Waterman | Walter Burke | Don Shelton | Elsie Baker | George Brand | Ralph Brooks | Douglas Carter | Mack Chandler | Noble Chissell | George Cooper | John Crawford | Lucille Curtis | Bert Davidson | King Donovan | Mike Donovan | Robert Foulk | Jim Frasher | Ned Glass | Eula Guy | Sherry Hall | Bradford Hatton | Jim Hayward | Perry Ivins | William F. Leicester | Arthur M. Loew Jr. | Louise Lorimer | John Maxwell | May McAvoy | David McMahon | Ernesto Molinari | Ralph Montgomery | Matt Moore | Melvin H. Moore | Virginia Mullen | Allen O'Locklin | Frank Overton | Juanita Quigley | Suzanne Ridgeway | John Roy | Maurice Samuels | Fred Santley | Phil Schumacher | Jack Shea | Fred Sherman | George Sherwood | Mary Jane Smith | Robert Strong | Peter M. Thompson | Charles Wagenheim | Napoleon Whiting

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
11/12/2018TVDVDLibrary6.5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Still have time to squeeze in a daily Noirvember entry. Interesting approach that’s part film noir but also crime procedural a la CSI as the team puts the pieces together to solve the murder. I like it.

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