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| Mystery Street | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | John Sturges |
| Screenplay by | Sydney Boehm Richard Brooks |
| Story by | Leonard Spigelgass |
| Produced by | Frank E. Taylor |
| Starring | Ricardo Montalbán Sally Forrest Bruce Bennett Elsa Lanchester Marshall Thompson |
| Cinematography | John Alton |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
| Music by | Rudolph G. Kopp |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $730,000[1][2] |
| Box office | $775,000[1] |
Mystery Street is a 1950 American black-and-white film noir featuring Ricardo Montalbán, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, and Marshall Thompson.[3] Produced by MGM, it was directed by John Sturges with cinematography by John Alton.
The film was shot on location in Boston and Cape Cod; according to one critic, it was "the first commercial feature to be predominantly shot" on location in Boston.[4] Also featured are Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and Harvard Yard in nearby Cambridge. According to Frances Glessner Lee biographer Bruce Goldfarb, the story of the death of Irene Perry, in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in 1940, as suggested by Glessner Lee (creator of The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death), was the basis of the film.[5] The story earned Leonard Spigelgass a nomination as Best Story for the 1951 Academy Awards.
- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ Glenn Lovell, Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008 p55.
- ^ Mystery Street at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ^ Book excerpt: Sherman, Paul. 'Mystery Street', book excerpt, March 30, 2008. Accessed: August 17, 2013.
- ^ Goldfarb, Bruce (2020). 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee & the Invention of Modern Forensics. Endeavour. pp. 202, 207. ISBN 9781913068042.