Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
Directed by	Michael Gordon
Written by	Paul Yawitz (original screenplay) Jack Boyle (character)
Produced by	Wallace MacDonald
Starring	Chester Morris William Wright Constance Worth
Cinematography	Henry Freulich
Edited by	Art Seid
Music by	M. W. Stoloff
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	November 5, 1942 (1942-11-05)
Running time	68 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle's pulp-fiction character.

Plot summary

Boston Blackie and his sidekick The Runt are called, first to a Manhattan apartment where there's $60,000 waiting in a safe, then to Hollywood, by Boston's old friend Arthur Manleder to bail him out of gangster trouble. Naturally the police are suspicious and trail him every step of the way.

Cast

• Chester Morris as Boston Blackie
• William Wright as Slick Barton
• Constance Worth as Gloria Lane
• Lloyd Corrigan as Arthur Manleder
• Richard Lane as Inspector John Farraday
• George E. Stone as The Runt
• Forrest Tucker as Whipper
• unbilled players include Lloyd Bridges, Ralph Dunn, Cy Kendall, Cyril Ring and Virginia Sale

External links

• Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at IMDb
• Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at AllMovie
• Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at the TCM Movie Database
• Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at the American Film Institute Catalog