Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
"A Beautiful Girl Turns Killer and Blackie is Taking the Rap!"
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Top Cast
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Chester Morris
Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
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Lynn Merrick
Constance Gloria Mannard
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Richard Lane
Insp. John Farraday
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Frank Sully
Sgt. Matthews
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Steve Cochran
Jack Higgins
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George E. Stone
The Runt
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Lloyd Corrigan
Arthur Manleder
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George M. Carleton
Wilfred Kittridge
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Edward Keane
Doctor
Overview
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Rating
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1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf6 Dec 11, 2023Is there no end to the suspicions of "Insp. Farraday" (Richard Lane)? If he could, he'd probably have "Blackie" (Chester Morris) down for the Lincoln assassination! Anyway this time around, it's a valuable Charles Dickens first edition that sells at auction for a whopping great $62,000. It turns out, though, that this is a fake folio - and naturally, our deductive genius concludes that it must be our erstwhile thief. As usual, "Blackie" and his long-suffering factotum "Runt" (George E. Stone), alongside his wealthy but rather bumbling friend "Manleder" (Lloyd Corrigan) have to get to the bottom of a scenario where a criminal network doesn't just stop at forgery, and the outwardly butter-wouldn't-melt " bookseller "Constance" (Lynn Merrick) is maybe not just as sweet as she seems. It's quickly paced, if predictable, and en route we have some fun in a dumb-waiter, some slapstick fisticuffs and a few red herrings before a denouement that is hardly a shock to anyone. One of the better films from this series, I think.
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