Meet boston blackie 1941 confessions of boston blackie 1941 alias. Notes about meet boston blackie, 1941, directed by robert florey, with chester morris, rochelle hudson, richard lane, available from turner classic movies. Meet boston blackie is a 1941 crime film starring chester morris as boston blackie, a notorious, but honorable jewel thief. Boston blackie is a great way to spend an evening in the theater of the mind. A close call for boston blackie 1946free classic detective film. The yarn begins when blackie finds a corpse in his cabin. Although the character had been the hero of a number of silent films, this was the first talking picture. Free customizable online radio with unlimited skips.
Chester morris plays boston blackie, a suspected jewel thief. The original week show was a sumer replacement for amos and andy. Dec 25, 2012 after listening to the oldtime radio adventures of boston blackie, and being a fan of the old pulps, i decided to give the source material a read. One of the earliest appearances of boston blackie, as created by jack boyle, was in the american magazine, july 1914, in a.
Boston blackie chester morris is a former burglar who has left his criminal past behind him. Confessions of boston blackie 1941 movie moviefone. Onesmedia offers all fourteen boston blackie films in one nicely packaged set of seven discs with two films per disc in chronological order. Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in boyles stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and televisionan enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend. 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. Oct 12, 2017 a close call for boston blackie full movie chester morris, lynn merrick, richard lane. All the trivia you can handle about meet boston blackie, 1941, directed by robert florey, with chester morris, rochelle hudson, richard lane, skip navigation. Inspector faraday, played by richard lane, is both flustered and relieved to have blackies help. 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. Boston blackie is a fictional character created by author jack boyle october 19, 1881 october 1928. Boston blackie, as written by jack boyle, is an unrepentant criminal who lives by a strict honor among thieves moral code. This old time radio series began airing on june 23, 1944 and continued to run on nbc network until september of the same year.
The boston blackie radio show was on the air for weeks in 1944 then for five years from 1945 to 1950. Meet boston blackie 1941 appropriately kicked off the popular movie franchise. Mostly about vintage music with a few other things every now and then. Sponsored by beneficial finance company and nationwide auto insurance. Most of the films in the series worked on a twelve day schedule. Boston blackie listen to free radio stations accuradio. Cast chester morris as boston blackie lynn merrick as geraldine gerry peyton richard lane as inspector farraday frank sully as sergeant matthews george e. Meet boston blackie by the radio ghost on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Boston blackie was one of columbias most profitable film series. Read on wikipedia edit history talk page print download pdf. 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. 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. However, succeeding adaptations in both film and radio revamped the work of boyle and boston blackie the detective was born. When a murder takes place, blackie and the runt trail marilyn to coney island. 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. Blackie was played by the actor who portrayed blackie in the movies, chester morris. This was the first in a series of boston blackie films starring chester morris and was sufficiently popular to spawn more hourlong pictures released by columbia from 1941 to 1949. Sound quality is very good for the age of the recordings. Part of our over 12,000 show library of old time radio. Two men played boston blackie on radio, chester morris and richard kollmar. Streamcloud meet boston blackie 1941 deutsch stream. It was preceded by meet boston blackie, confessions of boston blackie and followed by boston blackie goes hollywood. Mar 26, 2016 meet boston blackie 1941 is the first of fourteen boston blackie films from columbia pictures. Boston blackie online using any of the 3 radio players below. However, blackie usually ends up helping inspector faraday solve the crime.
Alias boston blackie 1942 is the third in a series of columbia pictures b movies starring chester morris as boston blackie. Columbia pictures then revived the property in 1941 with meet boston blackie, a fast, 58minute b feature starring chester morris. Argentina, australia, austria, bahrain, belgium, brazil, canada, colombia, cote divoire, egypt, france, germany, hong kong, india, indonesia. 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. The film opens as blackie morris and his sidekick the runt. Watch a close call for boston blackie film gorillas on. With chester morris, rochelle hudson, richard lane, charles wagenheim.
Morris was blackie for the original week radio run and he was the blackie of record in the 1940s films. A close call for boston blackie 1946 is the tenth of fourteen columbia pictures crime films starring chester morris as boston blackie. This is the sixth movie in the boston blackie series. A woman consigns a family heirloom to a pair of unscrupulous art dealers in order to raise money to help her sick brother. This fictional character was created by author jack boyle and was originally a jewel thief. To save his own skin, with the help of his girlfriend mary and sidekick shorty, blackie ends up solving the case. Love these low budget films that were produced during the 1940s and by a great producer, edward dmytryk who created many of these boston blackie films.
But by 1941, when columbia pictures released meet boston blackie starring chester morris, blackie had given up a life of crime to become a sort of freelance adventurerdetective although still not calling himself one, working for the good guys, although he preferred to not get too involved with the police. It proved popular enough for columbia pictures to produce a total of 14 b movies, all starring morris. When the radio show was added to the mutual line up in 1945, kollmar took over the radio role while morris continued playing blackie in films. Would you like to meet fellow german expats in boston.
When a dead body is discovered in blackie s apartment, he. Boston blackie is a reformed jewel thief who is never far from trouble. Would you like to get insider suggestions from other germans, e. An exthief helps some fellow excons adjust to life as defense workers, only to get involved with a robbery investigation. In this first film, blackie finds a corpse, martin vestrick, in his stateroom when the steamer he traveled back to the states on docks. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of meet boston blackie with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at. Not very true to life, but alot of great entertainment isnt. He sailed from the port of hamburg, germany, as a steerage passenger on board. Chester morris boston blackie classic movies youtube. Confessions of boston blackie 1941 reformed thief blackie chester morris solves the case of a womans harriet hilliard missing statue of augustus caesar. Inspector farraday of the homicide squad tries to pin blackie for the crime in every episode.
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