"Cinema: the new pictures," August 7, 1950.

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Title

"Cinema: the new pictures," August 7, 1950.

Subject

Medical jurisprudence.
Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine.
Moritz, Alan Richards, 1899-
Montalbán, Ricardo.
Mystery street.

Description

An MGM film originally intended as a documentary on the work of the Department of Legal Medicine was later recast as a fictional drama—Mystery Street (also known as Murder at Harvard.) The plot concerns a police detective (Ricardo Montalban) investigating and solving the murder of a woman on a Cape Cod beach with the help of “Dr. McAdoo” (Bruce Bennett, portraying a fictionalized version of Alan R. Moritz) and the Legal Medicine personnel at Harvard.

Abstract

Review of “Mystery Street,” from Time, August 7, 1950.

Creator

Author unknown.

Source

Harvard Medical School. Office of the Dean. Subject files, 1899-1953.

Date Created

1950-08-07.

Access Rights

Access to the original work depicted requires advance notice. Contact Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu for additional information

Format

text

Extent

1 printed document.

Language

English

Type

text

Identifier

M-DE01, Ser. 267, box 10, f. 529.

Provenance

From the Archives of Harvard Medical School.

Files

0003632_dref.jpg

Citation

Author unknown., “"Cinema: the new pictures," August 7, 1950.,” OnView, accessed April 20, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/17798.