
“Blackie Keeps the Action Boiling!”
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Release Date: 3/18/1943
Runtime: 65 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Lew Landers
00Companies: Columbia Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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Now to be fair, this time, to "Insp. Farraday" (Richard Lane) he has marginally more to base his suspicions on when he apprehends "Blackie" (Chester Morris) red handed in possession of some gems! We know that he's just fetching them from a safety deposit box on behalf of the daughter of the man who pinched them in the first place. He was being coerced by his "associates" to return the loot, but when he is killed it falls to "Betty" (Ann Savage) to work with "Blackie" to prove his innocence and to apprehend the folks who killed her father. Again, it's a tightly cast and well paced drama with an on form Morris working well with the slightly more substantial role played by Savage and with Lloyd Corrigan and the soon to be married "Runt" (George E. Stone) contributing well as this wartime feel-good thriller keeps us entertained easily enough for an hour of predicable cat and mouse antics with a hint of diamond-laced legerdemain!

Chester Morris
Boston Blackie

Richard Lane
Inspector Farraday

Ann Savage
Betty Barnaby

George E. Stone
The Runt

Lloyd Corrigan
Arthur Manleder

Cy Kendall
Joe Herschel

George McKay
Marty Beck

Al Hill
Sammy Walsh

Walter Sande
Sergeant Mathews

Walter Baldwin
Diamond Ed Barnaby
Jan Buckingham
Dixie Rose Blossom

Dick Elliott
Mr. Potts - Justice of the Peace
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