Word: manningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three actors and actresses transform the drama into the most powerful production to hit Boston in many a season. Byron McGrath's portrayal of the vitriolic Jack Manningham will send chills jumping from vertebra to vertebra for three solid hours. His tortured, neurotic wife, as played by Lynn Phillips, is a study in desperate hatred. Relief from all this psychopathic tension is contributed by Ernest Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street...
This cast manages to shatter the traditional aloofness of Boston audiences. Every time Manningham tries to strangle his wife and is foiled by the entrance of Sergeant Rough, a lengthy sigh rises from the orchestra and the balconies. At several points the staid Bostonians booed the villain and shouted directions at the hero...