Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
Acting
Chester Morris winks through every scene like he knows it's ridiculous.
Writing
Farraday and Matthews: cinema's most committed dumb-cop bit.
Director
Lew Landers
Chester Morris
Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black / Cyrus Peyton
Lynn Merrick
Geraldine 'Gerry' Peyton
Richard Lane
Inspector Farraday
Frank Sully
Sgt. Matthews
George E. Stone
The Runt
Claire Carleton
Mamie Kirwin
Russell Hicks
Attorney Harcourt (uncredited)
Charles Lane
Hack Hagen (uncredited)
Erik Rolf
Smiley Slade (uncredited)
John Tyrrell
Policeman (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Coroner (uncredited)
Wanda Perry
Tenant in Hallway (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chester Morris played Boston Blackie in 14 films between 1941-1949, basically inventing the charming-criminal archetype that Columbo would later interrogate.
The 'dumb cop' duo of Farraday and Matthews became a reliable comedy engine, predating the incompetent police trope that would dominate sitcoms decades later.
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