A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
From the archive
A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946) is the tenth of fourteen Columbia Pictures crime films starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie. Cast Chester Morris as Boston Blackie Lynn Merrick as Geraldine "Gerry" Peyton Richard Lane as Inspector Farraday Frank Sully as Sergeant Matthews George E. Stone as "The Runt" from imdb Enjoyable Blackie entry with ample laughs, no big surprises 24 September 2011 | by csteidler (Minnesota) Blackie and the Runt rescue a woman (Lynn Merrick) who's been attacked in the street right in front of their building. They carry in the unconscious woman, who is quickly identified as Gerry Peyton, one of Blackie's old flames. Nothing much new so far, but when they open the bedroom door we see the main twist that this series entry has to offer: a baby!
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- Director
- Lew Landers
- Starring
- Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, Frank Sully, George E. Stone, Claire Carleton, Russell Hicks, Charles Lane
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