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Mystery Street is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Sturges released in USA on 27 july 1950 with Ricardo Montalbán
Mystery Street (1950)
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Add to a movie listMystery Street is a 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by cinematographer John Alton. The film features Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, and Elsa Lanchester.
The MGM film was shot on location in Boston and Cape Cod; according to one Boston-based film critic, it was the first time Hollywood used Boston as a location. Also featured are Harvard Medical School in Roxbury, Massachusetts and Harvard University in nearby Cambridge. The film's story earned Leonard Spigelgass a nomination as Best Story for the 23rd Academy Awards.
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Blonde B-girl Vivian (played by Jan Sterling), is pregnant and tries to contact the father to seek help financially. He refuses to meet and stops taking her calls. She goes to "The Grass Skirt" bar in Boston where she works and picks up a drunk (Marshall Thompson) so she can use his car to drive to Cape Cod, where she can confront the father face to face.Actors
Ricardo Montalbán
(Peter Moralas)
Sally Forrest
(Grace Shanway)
Bruce Bennett
(Dr. McAdoo)
Elsa Lanchester
(Mrs. Smerrling)
Marshall Thompson
(Henry Shanway)
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