Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)

Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Genre

crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 05m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A woman sells a family heirloom to shady art dealers to pay for her brother's medical care. A reformed crook named Boston Blackie gets involved in the situation.

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What happens

Confessions of Boston Blackie is a 1941 American mystery crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Chester Morris, Harriet Hilliard and Richard Lane. 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 of 14 Columbia 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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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