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Sleuth Blackie is framed for murder but manages to catch the culprit.Sleuth Blackie is framed for murder but manages to catch the culprit.Sleuth Blackie is framed for murder but manages to catch the culprit.
Kathryn Card
- Landlady
- (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
- Mamie Kirwin
- (uncredited)
Jack Gordon
- Cab Driver
- (uncredited)
Russell Hicks
- Harcourt
- (uncredited)
Doris Houck
- Josie
- (uncredited)
Charles Lane
- Hack Hagen
- (uncredited)
George Lloyd
- Janitor
- (uncredited)
Brian O'Hara
- Dubious Cab Driver
- (uncredited)
Wanda Perry
- Tenant in Hallway
- (uncredited)
Mark Roberts
- John Peyton
- (uncredited)
Erik Rolf
- Smiley Slade
- (uncredited)
Victor Travis
- Tenant in Hallway
- (uncredited)
John Tyrrell
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe 10th of 14 "Boston Blackie" films starring Chester Morris released by Columbia Pictures from 1941 to 1949.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Phantom Thief (1946)
Featured review
Every time we think that after so many hilarious and varied adventures, the writers of the 'Boston Blackie' movie series must be running out of ideas sometime, they surprise us with something ENTIRELY new: this time, the story seems to revolve around one of Blackie's romances at first, and when the husband of the girl Blackie was 'sweet on', just released from jail, is found dead in Blackie's apartment, Inspector Faraday comes to the conclusion that, while he's learned by now that Blackie wouldn't kill anybody for diamonds or money and neither is he a deranged strangler - for a woman he MIGHT commit murder...
But the case very soon becomes a lot more complicated: there's a 'borrowed' baby involved that the 'Runt' and his girlfriend Mamie try to hide in the most impossible places (a very talented baby, by the way - literally a BORN actor!), while Blackie once more is at the same time on the run from the police and after the real murderer... Another VERY entertaining and surprising entry in this wonderful series of 40s crime-comedy mix!
But the case very soon becomes a lot more complicated: there's a 'borrowed' baby involved that the 'Runt' and his girlfriend Mamie try to hide in the most impossible places (a very talented baby, by the way - literally a BORN actor!), while Blackie once more is at the same time on the run from the police and after the real murderer... Another VERY entertaining and surprising entry in this wonderful series of 40s crime-comedy mix!
- binapiraeus
- Feb 10, 2014
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- Also known as
- A Close Call for Boston Blackie
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.37 : 1
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