Mystery Street (1950) on Netflix
Passed19501h 33mCrimeDramaFilm-Noir
A skeleton is found on a Massachusetts beach. Detective Peter Morales and Dr. McAdoo of Harvard Medical School use forensic science to learn who she was and how she died.
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- IMDb7.2/104,229 votes
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Plot summary
Vivian Heldon, a B-girl, works in a Boston bar. She calls James Joshua Harkley, a married man she has been seeing, and says she is in trouble, but he does not come. She talks a drunk stranger, Henry Shanway, into letting her drive his car toward Cape Cod, and when he sees how far they have gone he wants to turn back. Months later a skeleton is found on a Massachusetts beach. Detective Peter Morales takes the case, and Dr. McAdoo of Harvard Medical School studies the bones.
Cast
- Wally Maheras Tim Sharkey
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- Elsie Bakeras Elderly Lady (uncredited)
- George Brandas Man in Bedroom (uncredited)
- Ralph Brooksas Reporter (uncredited)
- Douglas Carteras Counterman at The Dunes (uncredited)
- Mack Chandleras Doorman (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mystery Street (1950)
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- The film's story was based on the 1940 death of Irene Perry in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a case suggested by Frances Glessner Lee, creator of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, according to her biographer Bruce Goldfarb.
- Shot on location in Boston and Cape Cod, the film was called by one critic the first commercial feature to be predominantly shot on location in Boston.
