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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 10 may 1945 with Chester Morris
Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945)
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Add to a movie listBoston Blackie Booked on Suspicion is the eighth of 14 Columbia Pictures B movies starring Chester Morris as reformed thief Boston Blackie.
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Boston Blackie's wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan), purchases an upscale bookstore from aged Wilfred Kittredge (George M. Carleton), but retains his services as a book expert. However, when Kittredge becomes ill just before an important auction he was to conduct, Blackie proves that he can impersonate him, fooling everyone, including Police Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane).Actors
Chester Morris
(Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black)
Richard Lane
(Insp. John Farraday)
Lynn Merrick
(Constance Gloria Mannard)
Frank Sully
(Sgt. Matthews)
Steve Cochran
(Jack Higgins)
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Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Frank Sully, Claire Carleton
Rating59%
Ignoring Inspector Farraday's (Richard Lane) friendly advice to stop helping women, Boston Blackie goes to the rescue of a female being attacked by two men. She turns out to be Geraldine "Gerry" Peyton (Lynn Merrick), an old flame of his. She begs him to help protect her baby from her husband John (an uncredited Mark Roberts), who has just been paroled.
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, 1h9Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Trudy Marshall, Constance Dowling, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Frank Sully
Rating62%
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.
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, 1h5Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane, Dusty Anderson, George E. Stone, Frank Sully
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One Mysterious Night (1944)
, 1h1Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Janis Carter, Richard Lane, William Wright, George E. Stone, Mark Roberts
Rating60%
The Blue Star of the Nile is stolen from an exhibition guarded by the police under Inspector Farraday. Under intense pressure from the police commissioner to recover the diamond, Farraday tells reporters, among them Dorothy Anderson, that he is sure Boston Blackie is responsible. However, he does not really believe that; it is only a ruse. When Blackie walks into Farraday's office, the inspector is so desperate he deputizes his old nemesis to get the jewel back, using his own methods.
, 1h5Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Harriet Nelson, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Joan Woodbury
Rating64%
Diane Parrish (Harriet Hilliard) is impatient for the sale of her statue of Augustus Caesar, as she needs the money to help her sick brother. Joe Buchanan, one of the art dealers handling the auction, asks her to stay away, claiming that an emotional attachment to the work might cause her to make a scene. She shows up anyway, and notices that the statue is not hers, but a fake. When Buchanan pulls out a gun to silence her, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) spots him and fires his own pistol. Parrish is only grazed, but Buchanan accidentally kills his partner and the replica's sculptor, Eric Allison.
, 1h5Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Ann Savage, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Cy Kendall
Rating63%
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.
The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
, 1h5Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Chester Morris, Jeanne Bates, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Arthur Hunnicutt
Rating60%
Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) helps get prisoners with needed skills released on parole to help in the machine and tool plant of his friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan). Those chosen want to support America's war effort. All of the parolees have to stay in Blackie's apartment, all except robber Dooley Watson. Blackie allows him to see his wife and son.
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
, 1h7Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Walter Sande
Rating63%
In the Christmas spirit, Boston Blackie decides to entertain the inmates at his old "alma mater" by bringing a variety show headed by clown Roggi McKay (George McKay). Roggi drops one of his showgirls, Eve Sanders (Adele Mara), as she has already visited her prisoner brother, Joe Trilby (Larry Parks), the maximum allowed number of times that month. However, Blackie kindheartedly lets her come along. Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane and Detective Joe Mathews (Walter Sande) unexpectedly join the group on the bus, just to keep an eye on Blackie. When Joe manages to escape from prison, by tying Roggi up and putting on his costume and makeup, Farraday suspects Blackie helped him.
, 1h8Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Will Wright, Constance Worth, Lloyd Corrigan, Cy Kendall
Rating61%
Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his sidekick The Runt (George E. Stone) are called, first to a Manhattan apartment where there's $60,000 waiting in a safe, then to Hollywood, by Boston's old friend Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan) to bail him out of gangster trouble. Naturally the police are suspicious and trail him every step of the way.
Meet Boston Blackie (1941)
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Chester Morris, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Lane, Constance Worth, George Magrill, James Seay
Rating65%
Returning to New York from Europe, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) tries unsuccessfully to strike up a conversation with attractive fellow ocean liner passenger Marilyn Howard (Constance Worth). He later rescues her when she is accosted by a man. However, when he tries to follow her, he runs into his friendly nemesis, police Inspector Faraday (Richard Lane), who wants to take him in on suspicion of stealing some pearls. Knowing that Blackie's word is good (and that handcuffs are useless against him), Faraday merely confiscates his Landing Card.