Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of meet boston blackie with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at. Boston blackie film collection 14 movies 7 dvdr by. Meet boston blackie was the sole venture for character great charles wagenheim as the runt. Meet boston blackie 1941 is a crime, drama movie starring chester morris and rochelle hudson. Boston blackie started in silent movies, then a series of at best b movies, starting with meet boston blackie in 1941, from there he moved to radio in 1944, and then onto television. Meet boston blackie 1941 directed by robert florey. When a dead body is discovered in blackie s apartment, he immediately. Meet boston blackie 1941 boston blackie chester morris is a former burglar who has left his criminal past behind him. Find movie and film cast and crew information for meet boston blackie 1941 robert florey on allmovie. Argentina, australia, austria, bahrain, belgium, brazil, canada, colombia, cote divoire, egypt, france, germany, hong kong, india, indonesia. Columbia pictures revived the property in 1941 with meet boston blackie, a fast, 58minute b feature starring chester morris. It is an excellent name for a bad guy turned good guy. He has to break up a spy ring before his name is cleared.
Chester morris starred as the title character in meet boston blackie, wherein the exthief protagonist and his underworld cronie the runt charles wagenheim meet a mysterious young lady named marilyn howard constance worth while disembarking from an ocean liner. Dates, runtimes, cast and crew, synopsis and posters. Dec 20, 2019 explore kees750s board boston blackie, followed by 9152 people. Although the character had been the hero of a number of silent films, this was the first talking picture. Boston blackie tangles with mystery, women and murder to smash a foreign spy ring in a coney island freak show. While he was featured in a handful of short stories, and a number of largely forgotten silent films of the 1920s, blackie didnt really reach mass popularity until columbia picture reintroduced the character to the public in 1941 with meet boston blackie. Wagenheims most memorable role was that of the runt in meet boston blackie 1941, a part taken over by george e. Not very true to life, but alot of great entertainment isnt. Diminutive, frequently mustached character actor charles wagenheim made the transition from stage to screen in or around 1940. A woman consigns a family heirloom to a pair of unscrupulous art dealers in order to raise money to help her sick brother. Meet boston blackie is the first of fourteen boston blackie films that began the new adventures of boston blackie. Blackie, who was created by novelist jack boyle, was originally a jewel thief, safe cracker, and confidence man. One of the earliest appearances of boston blackie, as created by jack boyle, was in the american magazine, july 1914, in a.
This was a pleasant enough little film with some nice laughs and decent action. When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in new york, the trail leads to coney island and a spy ring. Although the running time was brief, columbia gave the picture good production values and an imaginative director, robert florey. Confessions of boston blackie is a 1941 american crime film directed by edward dmytryk and starring chester morris and harriet hilliard. Boston blackie created by jack boyle 18811928 enemy to those who make him an enemy. Boston blackie is a great way to spend an evening in the theater of the mind. If the movietv character was married, i dont recall that, but blackies wife mary. Inspector faraday, played by richard lane, is both flustered and relieved to have blackie s help. Chester morris, boston blackie gets himself involved with harriet hillard, diane parrish who has put up a valuable statue for an art auction which is run by a crooked organization of hoods. I find this series of movies to be quite entertaining and it holds up better than some stuff made today. When a murder takes place, blackie and the runt trail marilyn to coney island.
The yarn begins when blackie finds a corpse in his cabin. Overview of meet boston blackie, 1941, directed by robert florey, with chester morris, rochelle hudson, richard lane, at turner classic movies. Meet boston blackie is the first of fourteen boston blackie films that began. The earliest films were silent movies, dating from 1918 to 1927. Meet boston blackie 1941 film complet en francais film. Meet boston blackie by the radio ghost on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Columbia pictures then revived the property in 1941 with meet boston blackie, a fast, 58minute b feature starring chester morris. However, blackie usually ends up helping inspector faraday solve the crime. A close call for boston blackie 1946 is the tenth of fourteen columbia pictures crime films starring chester morris as boston blackie. The series evolves blackie from a thief and underworld criminal into a new character that turns out to be very interesting and entertaining. Meet boston blackie is a 1941 crime film starring chester morris as boston blackie, a notorious, but honorable jewel thief.
Excon turned sleuth boston blackie makes his feature film debut in this fastpaced, funny mystery, the first of a longrunning series. Boston blackie is a rather peculiar character to include in this site as he wasnt a p. Meet boston blackie 1941 12 out of 4 first entry into columbias boston blackie series with chester morris. Kent taylor starred in the zivproduced halfhour tv series the adventures of boston blackie. The ultimate boston blackie log by charles laughlin, arlene osborne and al hubin updated 11252003 boston blackie, enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend. Watch a close call for boston blackie film gorillas on. Us poster chester morris jeanne bates 1943 movie poster masterprint detective. Boyles stories were collected in the book boston blackie 1919, which was reprinted in 1979 by gregg press. Chester morris is boston blackie, and his first appearance was aptly titled meet boston blackie in 1941. Meet boston blackie is the first of fourteen boston blackie films that began the new.
Boston blackie tries to help a girl being shadowed, but cannot help being suspected of two murders. Chester morris boston blackie classic movies youtube. Meet boston blackie 1941 confessions of boston blackie 1941 alias. Sound quality is very good for the age of the recordings. Cast chester morris as boston blackie lynn merrick as geraldine gerry peyton richard lane as inspector farraday frank sully as sergeant matthews george e. Chester morris plays boston blackie, a suspected jewel thief.
Meet boston blackie 1941 robert florey cast and crew. In this first film, blackie finds a corpse when the steamer he traveled on back to the states docks. The earliest boston blackie film adaptations were silent, dating from 1918 to 1927. Meet boston blackie 1941 film complet en francais a 20171111t19. Read the full synopsis of meet boston blackie, 1941, directed by robert florey, with chester morris, rochelle hudson, richard lane, at turner classic movies. Meet boston blackie 1941 official trailer, organic.
Complet vostfr, blondie meets the boss film en entier francais streaming vf. Blackie changed his ways and became a private investigator though the local police still suspected him of being a bad guy. Columbia pictures revived the property in 1941 with meet boston blackie, a fast, 58minute b movie starring chester morris. Part of our over 12,000 show library of old time radio. Meet boston blackie 1941 is the first of fourteen boston blackie films from columbia pictures. Stone as boston blackie the runt film title boston. Boston blackie, the suave crookturneddetective created by pulp writer jack boyle, had been popping up sporadically in films for nearly two decades by the time columbia launched its boston blackie series in 1941. Stone inherited the role and played it beautifully in all but the final blackie saga, boston blackie s chinese venture 1949where sid tomack is the runt.
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