Mystery Street-I had not heard of this movie until I purchased it as part of the excellent Film Noir boxset from Warner Brothers- volume 4-so far I have seen 5 of the movies from this set and I loved each one.This movie crams a film noir plot complete with femme fatale into the first 15 minutes-a solid paced and economically told story of a B-girl who wants to confront her upscale lover.Along the way she shanghai's the patsies' patsy- a near blind drunk hubby miserable over his wife's miscarriage and takes his car.Shot on location in Boston this film changes perspective the way some folks flip channels during a vice presidential debate.One scene we follow the police(including Ricardo Montalban) and then we see the shifty landlady(Elsa Lanchester) trying to blackmail a killer,etc.This movie is near perfect -except a Thin-Manish gathering of all of the main characters with a speech from the detective before the finale.The DVD has a 5 minute featurette and a commentary track by 2 film historians. A-
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