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After Midnight with Boston Blackie is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lew Landers released in USA on 18 march 1943 with Chester Morris
After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
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Add to a movie listAfter Midnight with Boston Blackie is a 1943 crime film, the fourth of a series of 14 Columbia Pictures movies starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie. When a recently paroled friend of Boston Blackie is killed, he finds himself once again the prime suspect of Police Inspector Farraday.
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When "Diamond" Ed Barnaby (an uncredited Walter Baldwin) is paroled, he sets out to give $100,000 worth of diamonds to his daughter, Betty (Ann Savage). Aware that several shady characters know he has the jewels, he stashes them in a safe deposit box in the Arcade Building. Betty later receives a call asking her to meet him there, but he never shows up. She contacts her father's only real friend: Horatio Black, better known as Boston Blackie. He agrees to help and drops Betty off at the apartment of his wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan), for safekeeping. His sidekick, "the Runt" (George E. Stone), has to postpone his wedding to statuesque bubble dancer Dixy Rose Blossom.Actors
Chester Morris
(Boston Blackie)
Richard Lane
(Inspector Farraday)
Ann Savage
(Betty Barnaby)
George E. Stone
(The Runt)
Lloyd Corrigan
(Arthur Manleder)
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