Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)

best movie i've ever seen.

The acting in this movie is really good.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A murder is committed at an art auction and Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) is accused of the crime. Blackie must elude Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) while trying to catch the real killer and prove his innocence. Second in the Boston Blackie series from Columbia introduces two recurring characters for the series: Inspector Farraday's sidekick Sgt. Matthews (Walter Sande) and Blackie's friend Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan). Speaking of sidekicks, Blackie's pal Runt is played for the first time by George E. Stone, who would go on to play the role in eleven more films. Also in the cast are lovely actresses Joan Woodbury and Harriet Hilliard. Fast pace and lots of action and humor make this a highly entertaining entry in the series.

Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941) *** (out of 4) Second film in the series has the ex-thief (Chester Morris) trying to track down some murderers who are also in the fake sculpture business. This here was directed by Edward Dmytryk and is a highly entertaining little gem. Morris is a lot better this time out and the screenplay gives him much better lines and a much better mystery. The film has some wonderful supporting players, all of which add plenty of laughs. Richard Lane returns as the Inspector and has great chemistry with Morris.

Love these low budget films that were produced during the 1940's and by a great producer, Edward Dmytryk who created many of these Boston Blackie films. Chester Morris,(Boston Blackie) gets himself involved with Harriet Hillard, (Diane Parrish) who has put up a valuable statue for an art auction which is run by a crooked organization of hoods who copy great treasures of art and sell the phony reproductions. There is a man who gets murdered and his body is hidden in a statue with a secret door on the back. Richard Lane, (Inspector Farraday) is always after Boston Blackie for stealing a pearl and also gets himself running around in circles trying to find something to arrest Boston Blackie and his sidekick George E. Stone, (The Runt). In this film, Harriet Hillard is the wife of Ozzie Nelson who made famous their favorite TV Show.

This time Blackie is suspected of being the murderer of an art dealer at an auction attended by Inspector Farraday. Blackie has to spend the rest of the movie exonerating himself of the crime and discovering what happened to the missing body of the art dealer.Female interest is provided by HARRIET HILLIARD, wife of "Ozzie" Nelson(the bandleader), who was making a few rather unimpressive appearances in films around this time. She's interested in purchasing a statue of Julius Caesar. Blackie is up to his same old shenanigans in throwing Farraday off his trail and proving that he's not guilty of a murder he never committed.Interesting plot has to do with the missing body of the dead man and how it was accomplished with a phony statue. The story follows the usual Boston Blackie formula and this one is not quite on the same level with the first Blackie film. Still, for detective fans, it manages to move briskly within its short running time.