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Mystery Street (1950)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
1/09
1/09:
Mystery Street is a rare film when it comes to me hating all of the characters but liking everything else,
especially the forensic science part.
Speaking of latter, it's not the earliest picture for accomplishing it, having been done two years earlier in
He Walked by Night which led to Dragnet.
Of course, some of the scientific breakthroughs, most notably the discovery of the bullet in a record-breaking time,
are too good to be true.
Yet the unfolding of the plot is nice, if predictable, because the killer's identity has already been revealed. However,
the characters are stupid. What kind of person ransacks a desk and leaves the office with a loaded gun? And for what?
All in all, I like Mystery Street for the forensic science part, but no thanks to the rest.