Boston Blackie's Rendezvous

Jul 5, 1945

1h 4m

★ 4.7

Strangler on the Loose! Copper on the Trail! SHOCKER on the Screen!

Overview

Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black

Chester Morris

Sally Brown

Nina Foch

Jimmy Casey

Steve Cochran

Inspector Farraday

Richard Lane

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George E. Stone

Mathews

Frank Sully

Martha

Iris Adrian

Arthur Manleder

Harry Hayden

Steve Caveroni

Joe Devlin

Hotel clerk

Dan Stowell

Dr. Fagle

Phil Van Zandt

Patricia Powers

Adele Roberts

A woman reporter discovers a former lover and intelligence officer during WWII apparently working as a waiter in a hotel; and, believing something she impulsively did while he was on a mission is responsible for his current situation, sets out to make things better by finding a foreign agent known only as Kupchek, with the help of the hotel's detective.

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