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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Did you know
- 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 Trapped by Boston Blackie (1948)
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Cherchez la femme!
Since Boston Blackie is also a genuine magician, he performs at a Thanksgiving celebration show in a female prison; and as his last act, he (maybe unwisely) chooses the 'vanishing lady' trick: he gets a pretty young blonde inmate (with a very much Veronica Lake-like hairstyle) to 'vanish' from his 'magical cabinet' - and she DOES: before the wardens are aware of it, she's escaped... The only mysterious clue she leaves behind is a note that someone is getting married on Sunday - so we're right in for another great crime puzzle with our smart friend Blackie and his not so very smart cop 'friends'!
The 'someone' who's getting married turns out to be - a magician as well; but with a past: he was involved in a robbery and murder case years ago - and it was the mysterious blonde that took the rap for the robbery. So Blackie takes over his colleague's identity to set a trap for the 'femme fatale' who's obviously after the money he's hidden somewhere... And here begins a REALLY crazy chase, and we even see Blackie and the 'Runt' for the first time in the whole series behind bars - and the 'Runt' merely comments dryly: "Here we are again - no place like home..." But, of course, they find another dumb cop soon to help them escape, and the hunt goes on...
For the most part, this movie looks just like a usual funny, entertaining 'Boston Blackie' adventure - but wait until you'll see the surprise ending...!
The 'someone' who's getting married turns out to be - a magician as well; but with a past: he was involved in a robbery and murder case years ago - and it was the mysterious blonde that took the rap for the robbery. So Blackie takes over his colleague's identity to set a trap for the 'femme fatale' who's obviously after the money he's hidden somewhere... And here begins a REALLY crazy chase, and we even see Blackie and the 'Runt' for the first time in the whole series behind bars - and the 'Runt' merely comments dryly: "Here we are again - no place like home..." But, of course, they find another dumb cop soon to help them escape, and the hunt goes on...
For the most part, this movie looks just like a usual funny, entertaining 'Boston Blackie' adventure - but wait until you'll see the surprise ending...!
- binapiraeus
- Feb 10, 2014
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By what name was Boston Blackie and the Law (1946) officially released in Canada in English?
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