MYSTERY STREET (1950) *1/2 Harvard legal industrial complex propaganda suggesting that law enforcement has a clue, buttressed by scenes in which the cops taint an entire witness pool by having them identify the suspect together, and while he's being examined after the rest of the lineup has been dismissed, and where the defendant learns on the day of his murder trial that he doesn't have representation. Of any sort, competent or otherwise as if it could be distinguished at that point. Well, I guess you could always ask for a continuance. Ricardo Montalban must have aged well, and he appears far less omnipotent on the streets of Boston than he later became on "Fantasy Island." Wanna be noire Hitchcock with a good train scene at the end.
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