Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Dudley Dickerson
- Train Porter
- (scenes deleted)
Jessie Arnold
- Housekeeper
- (uncredited)
Richard Bartell
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Lee Bennett
- Cameraman
- (uncredited)
Eddie Bruce
- Police Photographer
- (uncredited)
George M. Carleton
- Wilfred Kittredge
- (uncredited)
George Ford
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Almeda Fowler
- Auction Bidder
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaEighth of 14 "Boston Blackie" films starring Chester Morris released by Columbia Pictures from 1941 to 1949.
- GoofsAt the auction, Blackie (in disguise) puts the rare Dickens book down on the table twice between shots from the front and behind.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
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Blackie's disguises fool his closest friends, but not the viewer
It's murder, this time, of which Boston Blackie is suspected—though, not surprisingly, Inspector Farraday never does get Blackie to the station to actually book him. Caught practically red-handed on a murder scene, Blackie has to resort to the old hiding-under-the-camera-hood gag, pretending he's the police photographer and backing slowly out of the room while the cops stand by watching. (Note to self to do some research: Did they still use those tripod cameras with the hood over the photographer's head in 1945?)
The story involves a counterfeit first edition of Dickens' Pickwick Papers, with Blackie in disguise early on as an elderly whiskered book dealer. Chester Morris is his usual breezy Blackie self, with Richard Lane as Farraday as determined as ever to pin something on Blackie. Lynn Merrick and Steve Cochran seem more unstable and thus more frightening than many of Blackie's villains; they both give performances that are somewhat more serious than the good-natured bantering of Morris and Lane and the other regulars.
Favorite scene: Farraday brushing off a gang of reporters by shouting, "I'm not Superman, I'm just a human being!" –and the reporters rushing out sarcastically shouting it as a scoop: "Oh-ho, he's not Superman!"
The story involves a counterfeit first edition of Dickens' Pickwick Papers, with Blackie in disguise early on as an elderly whiskered book dealer. Chester Morris is his usual breezy Blackie self, with Richard Lane as Farraday as determined as ever to pin something on Blackie. Lynn Merrick and Steve Cochran seem more unstable and thus more frightening than many of Blackie's villains; they both give performances that are somewhat more serious than the good-natured bantering of Morris and Lane and the other regulars.
Favorite scene: Farraday brushing off a gang of reporters by shouting, "I'm not Superman, I'm just a human being!" –and the reporters rushing out sarcastically shouting it as a scoop: "Oh-ho, he's not Superman!"
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- csteidler
- Sep 16, 2011
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- Booked on Suspicion
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- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945) officially released in India in English?
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