Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Jessie Arnold
- Prisoner
- (uncredited)
Eugene Borden
- Mephistopheles the Great
- (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps
- Detective Callahan
- (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
- Patrolman Peterson
- (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
- Bank Guard
- (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston
- Reporter Jackson
- (uncredited)
Fred Fox
- Stage Doorman
- (uncredited)
Fred Graff
- Clerk
- (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
- Prison Guard Operating Siren
- (uncredited)
Lew Harvey
- Stagehand
- (uncredited)
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This film (and all the other Boston Blackie films) is significant to those of us in the plus 65 age group for more than one reason. It hearkens us back to Saturday afternoons during the '40's, when a dime or 15 cents gained us an afternoon's entertainment at the Strand. Here was Chester Morris on the big screen, and, as we munched popcorn and stared bug-eyed at our tough, clever hero, we knew that he was more likely to escape any predicament using his wits rather than his fists. We knew that the runt, bumbler though he may be, loyal to the core, would come through when needed. And we knew that Inspector Farraday would never seem to come to fully trust Blackie as we knew he should, and that he would have an assistant who was an even worse bumbler than the Runt. This was an hour and a half of pure escapism, even for an eight or nine year old. And today, for an almost seventy year old. Tacked to a cartoon, newsreel, a Three Stooges (I am one of the few die hard Shemp fans, but that's another story)and maybe an Abbott and Costello....just the place to make your troubles vanish, real or imagined. In short, this film is fun. It is not great drama, comedy, acting, writing, or plotting. Just fun.
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- TriviaIn his book "The Detective in Hollywood" Jon Tuska cites director Edward Dmytryk as reminiscing that actor Chester Morris loved doing magician's card tricks on set during the Boston Blackie pictures.
- GoofsAfter Boston Blackie and his magic box are taken to Inspector Farraday's office, Blackie insults the inspector by describing his hat as cheap. The inspector throws his white hat towards a coat tree that has several coats and a black hat already hanging on it. Blackie then hides from Sergeant Matthews in the box, and slips away from police headquarters. While Matthews dismantles the box with a fire ax, Farraday re-enters the room but the coat tree now has no hats and only one coat hanging on it.
- Quotes
Insp. John Farraday: What have you got in that quonset hut?
- ConnectionsFollowed by Traqués par Boston Blackie (1948)
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- Quicker Than the Eye
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- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Boston Blackie and the Law (1946) officially released in Canada in English?
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