***SPOILERS*** Dull and over-plotted Boston Blackie, Chester Morris, movie with Blackie surviving a car accident that his good friend private eye Joe Kenyon was killed in. Blackie bruised but back on his feet and in action gets to work for Joe's detective agency that his widowed wife Helen, Mary Currier, is now running. Sure enough on his first case Blackie together with his sidekick "The Runt", George E.Stone, get involved in a heisting or switching of an expensive pearl necklace worth $50,000.00 as ballet master Igor Borlo, Ed Norris, and his partner Sandra Dorley, Fay Baker,were doing their act right in front of the shocked audience! And what's even worse, for Blackie & "The Runt", it's Boston Blackie whom the necklace is later found on by Inspector Farraday, Richard Lang, and his bumbling partner Sgt. Matthew,Frank Sully.
Now on the run ,like he's in all of his movies, from the law Blackie and "The Runt" are out to prove their innocence in finding who in fact stole or pearl necklace that was switched with a fake and worthless one. Going under cover Blackie uses, together with "The Runt", his many disguises to get to the bottom of this very troubling case. A case that originated with what turned out to be the murder of his friend Joe Kenyon who was on to it, the planned switching of the two necklaces, and was killed just as he was about to prevent it from happening!
***SPOILERS***Chester Morris was very unconvincing in the action scenes in the movie looking as if he's so out of shape and rollie polly, like a bowling pin, that he'd be having trouble just bending down to tie his shoes! Much less have him duke it out with the bad guys and put them away with one, the major villain, who looked to be in a lot better shape and was at least a half foot taller then him. In the disguise department Blackie and "The Runt" feared much better in that in some of their disguises, with "The Runt" as an elderly lady, they were totally unorganizable. Which if they stuck to them it would have made those of us watching completely forget who they were and thus save them any embarrassment in being in the movie.
Now on the run ,like he's in all of his movies, from the law Blackie and "The Runt" are out to prove their innocence in finding who in fact stole or pearl necklace that was switched with a fake and worthless one. Going under cover Blackie uses, together with "The Runt", his many disguises to get to the bottom of this very troubling case. A case that originated with what turned out to be the murder of his friend Joe Kenyon who was on to it, the planned switching of the two necklaces, and was killed just as he was about to prevent it from happening!
***SPOILERS***Chester Morris was very unconvincing in the action scenes in the movie looking as if he's so out of shape and rollie polly, like a bowling pin, that he'd be having trouble just bending down to tie his shoes! Much less have him duke it out with the bad guys and put them away with one, the major villain, who looked to be in a lot better shape and was at least a half foot taller then him. In the disguise department Blackie and "The Runt" feared much better in that in some of their disguises, with "The Runt" as an elderly lady, they were totally unorganizable. Which if they stuck to them it would have made those of us watching completely forget who they were and thus save them any embarrassment in being in the movie.