Chester Morris
Horatio "Boston Blackie" Black/Cyrus Peyton
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A Close Call for Boston Blackie is a 1946 American crime film directed by Lew Landers. It is the 10th of 14 Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.
A Close Call for Boston Blackie: Directed by Lew Landers. With Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, Frank Sully. Sleuth Blackie is framed for murder but manages to catch the culprit.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Lew Landers
- 1946-01-24
Sleuth Blackie is framed for murder but manages to catch the culprit.** Director: Lew Landers** Stars: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane.
- 60 min
- 28.9K
- ONESMEDIA
When Farraday discovers Peyton's dead body stuffed in Blackie's closet, he arrests Blackie for murder. After leaving The Runt and the baby at the apartment of The Runt's girl friend Mamie, Gerry, who has been lying about her motherhood, visits her accomplices to discuss their a scheme to extort money from her wealthy father-in-law.
- Lew Landers, Chris Beute
- Chester Morris
Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881–1928). Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."
A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946) is the tenth of fourteen Columbia Pictures crime films directed by Lew Landers, starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie....
- 60 min
- 353
- ONESFILMS
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.
