Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Mystery Street (1950)


MGM
Directed by John Sturges
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)

Ricardo Montalban is a persistent police detective trying to solve the murder of a call girl. He gets help, lots of help, from his buddies at the Harvard medical school. Leads that seem flimsy at first turn out to break the case wide open. They are initially lead to the wrong man who is arrested and put on trial. A missing gun leads to the real killer. Elsa Lanchester is excellent as a drunken landlady who plays a very important part in the plot.

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