Word: montalban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mystery Street. Harvard joins the police in some scientific crime detection that makes for absorbing melodrama; with Ricardo Montalban (TIME...
Mystery Street. Harvard joins the police in some scientific crime detection that makes for absorbing melodrama; with Ricardo Montalban (TIME...
...things that make Montalban convincing in the role of a detective is that he is so often wrong. He tags the wrong man as the murderer from the start, and is only through the persistence of Harvard's "Professor McAdoo" that Justice triumphs. The Professor is played by a movie actor named Bruce Bennett, who, believe it or not, looks and talks like any number of youngish local scholars...
That empty brown cardboard box Ricardo Montalban carried around in the Yard last winter has finally reached the local screen. It is a pleasure to report that the celluloid facsimile, of the box does not seem empty, nor does Mr. Montalban look nearly as silly carrying it. He is, in fact, quite believable in the role of police lieutenant Morales of Barnstable, a detective looking for an unknown murderer...
Mystery Street. Harvard joins the police in some scientific crime detection that makes for absorbing melodrama; with Ricardo Montalban (TIME...