Boston blackie was one of columbias most profitable film series. Meet boston blackie 1941 film complet en francais film. Chester morris is boston blackie, and his first appearance was aptly titled meet boston blackie in 1941. Alias boston blackie 1942 boston blackie goes to hollywood 1942. Held as an accomplice, blackie gets away and starts the phantom thief, the 1946 boston blackie, in the 11th film of the columbia series, indulges in some wittrading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. Blackie out to help his pal, runt, recover some jewels, finds himself involved in. Afer midnight with boston blackie 1943 the chance of a lifetime 1943. Meet boston blackie was directed by robert florey and shot in black and white by franz planer.
It does not appear to have been released on dvd or vhs. In this first film, blackie finds a corpse when the steamer he traveled on back to the states docks. Boston blackie film collection 14 movies 7 dvdr with. With chester morris, nina foch, steve cochran, richard lane. Meet boston blackie letterboxd social film discovery. The earliest boston blackie film adaptations were silent, dating from 1918 to 1927. Boston blackie goes hollywood 1942 movie 68 min starring chester morris as boston blackie. Confessions of boston blackie film confessions of boston blackie 08 december 1941. Meet boston blackie is a film directed by robert florey with chester morris. With chester morris, rochelle hudson, richard lane, charles wagenheim. When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in new york, the trail leads to coney island and a spy ring.
The yarn begins when blackie finds a corpse in his cabin. Meet boston blackie by the radio ghost on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Richard lane, who plays bostons longsuffering inspector farraday, was the only other character in all fourteen of the boston blackie movies. Two men played boston blackie on radio, chester morris and richard kollmar.
The complete boston blackie in search of jack boyle. All paypal payments will show as being made to blazin games our parent company. Meet boston blackie 1941 robert florey ive seen a lot of movies directed by robert florey lately, including the face behind the mask and the beast with five fingers, but ive not come across boston blackie until now. The earliest films were silent movies, dating from 1918 to 1927. Watch boston blackie booked on suspicion full movie in hd visit blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently s. Boston blackie is a highly respected member of that group and recognized as its titular head. Reformed safecracker boston blackie and his sidekick the runt are docking at new york harbor upon their return from europe when. Columbia pictures then revived the property in 1941 with meet boston blackie, a fast, 58minute b feature starring chester morris. Chester morris boston blackie classic movies youtube. Dates, runtimes, cast and crew, synopsis and posters. Boston blackie booked on suspicion 1945 full movie.
It was preceded by meet boston blackie, confessions of boston blackie and followed by boston blackie goes hollywood. The return of boston blackie full movie strongheart youtube. Meet boston blackie became the first film in columbias profitable 14 film series, with chester morris providing an amiable, charming hero in all episodes. Three or four complete movies on each dvd, complete with menu. Morris brought to the role a delightful offhand manner and sense of humour that kept the films fresh even when the scripts werent, according to. Stone, playing blackies sidekick, his dimwitted cronie the runt, was not in the first or last film but was in all the others.
Boston blackie and the shushing librarian reel librarians. I suspect that this was done in order to run the book in serial form in magazines such as the saturday evening post which was commonly done at. One mysterious night 1944 boston blackie booked on suspicion. Regarder en hd a murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. With chester morris, harriet nelson, richard lane, george e. Star of the month chester morris as boston blackie youtube. When the radio show was added to the mutual line up in 1945, kollmar took over the. The prime suspect is boston blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target. Cast chester morris as boston blackie lynn merrick as geraldine gerry peyton richard lane as inspector farraday frank sully as sergeant matthews george e. Boston blackie goes hollywood 1942 part 1 of 8 2 of 8 3 of 8 4 of 8 5 of 8 6 of 8 7 of 8 8 of 8. When a dead body is discovered in blackies apartment, he immediately becomes the chief murder suspect. The falcon mystery movie collection, volume 1 3 discs by.
Columbias boston blackie series got off to a good start with the first entry, the logicallytitled meet boston blackie. Rochelle hudson and chester morris in meet boston blackie 1941 rochelle. Boston blackie is a rather peculiar character to include in this site as he wasnt a p. I find this series of movies to be quite entertaining and it holds up better than some stuff made today. Columbia pictures revived the property in 1941 with meet boston blackie, a fast, 58minute b movie starring chester morris. The boston blackie film collection dvd video, 2014. A close call for boston blackie 1946free classic detective film. A close call for boston blackie 1946 is the tenth of fourteen columbia pictures crime films starring chester morris as boston blackie.
The boston blackie tv episode was called cop killer and it was the second show aired when the show went on the air september 27, 1951, a ziv television production directed by paul landres who later directed the alan freed rock n roll quickie go, johnny, go from a script by warren wilson. Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree. Technically, audiences at the time didnt need to meet the character, as he had been making sporadic screen appearances for the last 20 years or so, but this was their first time to meet chester morris in the role, and he was definitely worth meeting. In the 1946 film boston blackie and the law, reformed thief blackie performs a magic show in a womens prison, and one of the inmates, dinah, escapes during the disappearing booth trick. Meet boston blackie is the first of fourteen boston blackie films that began the. Cleverly directed by robert florey and atmospherically lensed by cinematographer franz planer, meet boston blackie was an excellent launching pad for one of columbias most profitable film series. Alias boston blackie 1942 is the third in a series of columbia pictures b movies starring chester morris as boston blackie. Although the running time was brief, columbia gave the picture good production values and an imaginative director, robert florey. Rochelle hudson in meet boston blackie 1941 rochelle hudson and.
Columbia pictures revived the property in 1941 with meet boston blackie, a fast, 58minute b feature starring chester morris. Excon turned sleuth boston blackie makes his feature film debut in this fastpaced, funny mystery, the first of a longrunning series. A close call for boston blackie free old mystery movies full length. Once again, blackie is suspected of committing a crime, in this instance of helping a prisoner escape. Blackie is accused of murdering a man at an art auction, which leads. Unlike the concurrent films, blackie had a steady romantic interest in the radio show lesley woods appeared as blackies girlfriend. Meet boston blackie is a 1941 crime film starring chester morris as boston blackie, a notorious, but honorable jewel thief. Meet boston blackie 1941 this is the first movie in the boston blackie series.
Boston blackie and the shushing librarian a typical reel library set, complete with stereotypical spinster librarian in residence. Every thursday night in january, we are featuring the boston blackie film series in chronological order. Boston blackie tangles with mystery, women and murder to smash a foreign spy ring in a coney island freak show. Morris was blackie for the original week radio run and he was the blackie of record in the 1940s films. Meet boston blackie 1941 02201941 us crime, drama 1h user score. The boston blackie radio series, starring chester morris, began june 23, 1944, on nbc as a summer replacement for the amos n andy show. Boston blackie chester morris is a former burglar who has left his criminal past behind him. Boyles stories were collected in the book boston blackie 1919, which was reprinted in 1979 by gregg press.
Meet boston blackie is the first of fourteen boston blackie films that began the new adventures of boston blackie. Watch meet boston blackie full movie in hd visit when a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in new york, the trail. Meet boston blackie 1941 film complet en francais a 20171111t19. Some of the other films in the series have been released in the sony choice mod line or on region 2 dvds in europe. All movies are in region 0 ntsc format and are supplied in protective plastic sleeves. Before long, our hero and heroine are mixed up with a gang of foreign spies operating out of a funhouse. Boston blackie created by jack boyle 18811928 enemy to those who make him an enemy.
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