Confessions of Boston Blackie

Confessions of Boston Blackie is a 1941 American crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Chester Morris and Harriet Hilliard. A woman consigns a family heirloom to a pair of unscrupulous art dealers in order to raise money to help her sick brother. This film is the second in the series ofColumbia Pictures Boston Blackie films, all starring Morris as the reformed crook. It was preceded by Meet Boston Blackie 1941 and followed by Alias Boston Blackie 1942.

When Police Inspector Farraday Richard Lane arrives, he automatically assumes that Blackie is guilty and takes him into custody. Buchanan hides in the hollow fake statue. Then when the coast is clear, he puts Allisons body and the incriminating bullet inside and makes his escape. The replica is purchased by Blackies wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder Lloyd Corrigan. Despite lacking a corpse, Farraday keeps Blackie in jail, but not for long. Blackie switches places with an unfortunate ice cream man William Benedict and escapes.He goes to see Diane in the hospital to obtain information. To get in undetected, he once again appropriates the unlucky ice cream mans uniform and pretends to be Dianes doctor. When he learns why she needs the money so badly, he arranges for his assistant, the Runt George E. Stone, to masquerade as an insurance adjuster to give her 6000 he borrowed from Manleder. The money had initially been intended to pay off a blackmailing Mona Joan Woodbury, who claims she is Blackies wife. When Mona shows up and demands the money, Diane realizes that Blackie is her benefactor. ........

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