Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?

1971
PG
1h 30m

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A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anyb... Read allA prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anybody else in the neighborhood, and decides to investigate the case himself.A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anybody else in the neighborhood, and decides to investigate the case himself.

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Red Buttons

Mickey Isador

Sylvia Miles

Christine

Alice Playten

Della Isador

Conrad Bain

Val Rooney

Dick Anthony Williams

Malthus
(as Dick Williams)

Sam Waterston

Alex Monte

David Doyle

Roger Boulting

Gilbert Lewis

Solomon the Cop

Earl Hindman

Whitey

Ron Carey

Larry the Bartender

Norman Rose

Doctor Barkunian

Ellen Gurin

Angela

Lelia Martin

Mary
(as Leila Martin)

Tony Page

Joe
(as Anthony Page)

Donald Marye

Dee Timberlake

Nurse

Sally Birkhead

Matron
(as Sally Burkehead)

Antonia Rey

Waitress

Director
- Ernest Pintoff
Writer
- John O'Toole
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Commendable hard-boiled crime program.

A very small film which was born into instant obscurity, WHO KILLED MARY WHAT'S'ERNAME deserves to be exhumed from the graveyard of forgotten movies and given a second look. Red Buttons is surprisingly good in his out-of-character role as a decent Joe Anyman who's trying to unravel the mystery of a hooker recently murdered in a rundown part of the city...a case to which the authorities have been entirely unresponsive.

He comes to find that she was known to the many creatures of the street, but as little more than a nameless, faceless blur in the periphery of a sideways glance.

An unfortunate truth is brought to the fore, that a sizable swath of the population simply doesn't matter...not to each other, maybe not even to themselves. WHO KILLED MARY WHAT'S'ERNAME dares us to look at those we've tuned our backs on in a tactful, but honest portraiture of someone else's America.

5.5/10.