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Confessions of Boston Blackie is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Dmytryk released in USA on 8 december 1941 with Chester Morris
Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
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Add to a movie listConfessions of Boston Blackie is a 1941 American crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Chester Morris and Harriet Hilliard. A woman consigns a family heirloom to a pair of unscrupulous art dealers in order to raise money to help her sick brother. This film is the second in the series of 14 Columbia Pictures Boston Blackie films, all starring Morris as the reformed crook. It was preceded by Meet Boston Blackie (1941) and followed by Alias Boston Blackie (1942).
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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.Actors
Chester Morris
(Boston Blackie)
Harriet Nelson
(Diane Parrish)
Richard Lane
(Inspector John Farraday)
George E. Stone
(The Runt)
Lloyd Corrigan
(Arthur Manleder)
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