Blackie tricks a blackmailer-murderer into a confession. Story involves sinister seances and ghostly apparitions.Blackie tricks a blackmailer-murderer into a confession. Story involves sinister seances and ghostly apparitions.Blackie tricks a blackmailer-murderer into a confession. Story involves sinister seances and ghostly apparitions.
John Bagni
- Shill
- (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Tom Dillon
- Dinny McGonagle
- (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
- Police Sergeant
- (uncredited)
George Eldredge
- Cop #2 Outside Hospital Room
- (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston
- 2nd Police Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Doris Houck
- Waitress
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEleventh of fourteen "Boston Blackie" films starring Chester Morris released by Columbia Pictures from 1941 to 1949.
- Quotes
Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: As soon as I get done fixing your ethical code I need to work on your grammar.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
Featured review
Some ghostly fun as well as mystery with Boston Blackie
This entry in the Boston Blackie series has Blackie trying to help a young woman who is being blackmailed by a spiritualist, Dr. Nejino, played by familiar Columbia heavy Marvin Miller. When Blackie confronts Nejino, the doctor does something unusual for a spiritualist in these old movies - he admits the whole séance business is an act, but that it is an act that helps his patients deal with the losses of loved ones in their own way and in their own time. In the case of the young woman in question - wealthy Anne Duncan - her father's death has left her terribly lonely in spite of her recent marriage. So Nejino invites Blackie to watch one of his séances. The problem is, during the séance a member of the audience is knifed in the back. Of course, Blackie is suspect number one in the case.
This one has plenty of good old fashioned haunted house and ghostly fun, and if it seems that magic is a recurring theme in the Boston Blackie series, it is so for a reason. Chester Morris was a very good amateur magician, even entertaining the troops during World War II with his act. Recommended for anyone who specifically likes the Boston Blackie series or the old B detective movies of the 40's in general.
This one has plenty of good old fashioned haunted house and ghostly fun, and if it seems that magic is a recurring theme in the Boston Blackie series, it is so for a reason. Chester Morris was a very good amateur magician, even entertaining the troops during World War II with his act. Recommended for anyone who specifically likes the Boston Blackie series or the old B detective movies of the 40's in general.
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- AlsExGal
- May 28, 2012
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- Boston Blackie's Private Ghost
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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