Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
- Released
- 1945
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1945
Storyline
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Top credits
Chester Morris — Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Lynn Merrick — Constance Gloria Mannard
Richard Lane — Insp. John Farraday
Frank Sully — Sergeant Matthews
Did you know
• Eighth of 14 "Boston Blackie" films starring Chester Morris released by Columbia Pictures from 1941 to 1949.
• The rare book that was auctioned, "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club", or just "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens was originally published in twenty serialized parts in 1836. In 2017, depending on completeness and condition, copies signed by Dickens have been listed from $25,000 to $100,000.
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"Booked" (verb trans.) is a pun?
A "Dickens" of a mess for Blackie in disguise...
Blackie involved in first editions
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
