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Boston Blackie and the Law is a american film of genre Drama directed by D. Ross Lederman released in USA on 12 december 1946 with Chester Morris
Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
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Add to a movie listBoston Blackie and the Law is the twelfth of fourteen Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie.
Synopsis
When Boston Blackie performs magic tricks at a Thanksgiving Day party for the inmates of a women's prison, Dinah Moran (Constance Dowling) volunteers to enter a booth. She disappears after he draws the curtain, but as a former magician's assistant, uses the opportunity to escape. Police Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) takes Blackie into custody as an accomplice, but Blackie easily gets away himself.Actors
Chester Morris
(Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black)
Trudy Marshall
(Irene)
Constance Dowling
(Dinah Moran)
Richard Lane
(Inspector Farraday)
George E. Stone
(The Runt)
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