Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle's pulp-fiction character.
| Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Michael Gordon |
| Written by | Paul Yawitz (original screenplay) Jack Boyle (character) |
| Produced by | Wallace MacDonald |
| Starring | Chester Morris William Wright Constance Worth |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
| Edited by | Art Seid |
| Music by | M. W. Stoloff |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 68 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot summary
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Boston Blackie and his sidekick The Runt are called, first to a Manhattan apartment where there's $60,000 waiting in a safe, then to Hollywood, by Boston's old friend Arthur Manleder to bail him out of gangster trouble. Naturally the police are suspicious and trail him every step of the way.
Cast
edit- Chester Morris as Boston Blackie
- William Wright as Slick Barton
- Constance Worth as Gloria Lane
- Lloyd Corrigan as Arthur Manleder
- Richard Lane as Inspector John Farraday
- George E. Stone as The Runt
- Forrest Tucker as Whipper
- unbilled players include Lloyd Bridges, Ralph Dunn, Cy Kendall, Cyril Ring and Virginia Sale
References
editExternal links
edit- Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at IMDb
- Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at AllMovie
- Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at the TCM Movie Database
- Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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