Word: montalban
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Right Cross (MGM) deserves credit, but not much, for putting a fairly new gimmick into a boxing story: it encourages the audience to root for its hero (Ricardo Montalban) to lose the big fight. Only if he forfeits the championship can Montalban feel sure that his girl (June Allyson) loves him for himself alone...
Harvard Square has a man to about Harvard Square, in "Mystery Street" at the Square' University Theatre. A history of the Cantab's Department of Legal Medicine, it stars Ricardo Montalban as a Boston detective who steps in and cleans up a murder when the Crimson crime-steppers are befuddled...
...involves the death of a Boston taxi-dancer, killed by her husband when she is caught cavorting with one of the Harvard medics. The legal Doctors take upon themselves to clear up their own scandal but they are faced with a blank wall until Boston Police--ably led by Montalban step in to pull them...
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...