Mystery Street, while not the first movie filmed and set in Massachusetts, might be the first real "Boston movie." Ricardo Montalban plays Peter Moralas, a young Barnstable County detective whose first murder investigation takes him to Boston after a skeleton is found among the dunes of Cape Cod. With nothing but a box of bones... Continue Reading →
1972 — Stigma
Philip Michael Thomas is an African-American doctor let out of federal jail early (he had been convicted of performing illegal abortions) in order to go to a fictitious Massachusetts island to assist the town doctor, who was his mentor at Harvard. When the old doctor dies, the newcomer is tasked with curing a town of... Continue Reading →