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The Detective Goes the Wrong Way

1949 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ20002541 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Detective Goes the Wrong Way (Spanish:Detective a contramano) is a 1949 Uruguayan comedy film directed by Adolfo L. Fabregat and starring Juan Carlos Mareco, Mirtha Torres and Roberto Fontana.

Cast

Juan Carlos Mareco as Pinocho

Mirtha Torres

Roberto Fontana

Hugo Duharte

Marta Gularte

Dido Pastorino

Pebete Romero

References

Bibliography

Rist, Peter H. Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Editorial summary

“The Detective Goes the Wrong Way” enters the record as 1949 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Detective, Goes and Wrong can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-10-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Detective, Goes and Wrong.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Detective Goes the Wrong Way” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Detective, Goes and Wrong provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20002541. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949 and 2014.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Detective Goes the Wrong Way” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.