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Boston Blackie and the Law
Boston Blackie and the Law is the twelfth of fourteen Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie.
Plot.
When Boston Blackie performs magic tricks at a Thanksgiving Day party for the inmates of a women's prison, Dinah Moran (Constance Dowling) volunteers to enter a booth. She disappears after he draws the curtain, but as a former magician's assistant, uses the opportunity to escape. Police Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) takes Blackie into custody as an accomplice
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By the mid- to late 1930s, Morris' popularity had begun to wane and he was cast as the lead actor such B-movies as "Smashing the Rackets" (1938) and "Five Came Back" (1939). In 1941, Morris' career was revived when he was cast as criminal-turned-detective Boston Blackie. Morris appeared in a total of 14 "Boston Blackie" films for Columbia Pictures, beginning with "Meet Boston Blackie". He reprised the