Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Richard Alexander
- 1st Bruiser
- (uncredited)
Bing Conley
- 2nd Bruiser
- (uncredited)
Lew Davis
- Man in Ticket Line
- (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
- Cab Driver Steve Caveroni
- (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
- Man Asking About Irene
- (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
- Arthur Manleder
- (uncredited)
Marilyn Johnson
- Chambermaid
- (uncredited)
Charles Jordan
- 3rd Reporter
- (uncredited)
Tom Kennedy
- Doorman
- (uncredited)
Perc Launders
- 2nd Reporter
- (uncredited)
Bob Meredith
- Man in Line
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThe ninth of 14 "Boston Blackie" films starring Chester Morris released by Columbia Pictures from 1941 to 1949.
- GoofsWhen Boston Blackie is found near the murder scene , he is arrested. The cab driver who brought the real killer and the victim there and can prove that Blackie is innocent is parked nearby yet Blackie forgets all about him. He is never mentioned again.
- Quotes
Boston Blackie: What time did they leave?
Martha: What do I look like, a sundial?
Boston Blackie: Not in this light.
- ConnectionsFollowed by A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)
Featured review
Blackie Chases Serial Killer -- It's a Laff Riot!
Boston Blackie movies have some strengths -- mostly in that the pacing is swift and the hero is cheerfully unfazed in even the worst circumstances. But the plotting is frequently atrocious, and the unrelenting comic bits often kill the pacing (if the plot happens to be atypically good) or are just unfunny and inappropriate.
This one involves Blackie chasing an escapee from the asylum (Steve Cochran in a really poor performance) who has become fixated on beautiful Nina Foch (who puts in a nice, rather subtle acting job). Inspector Farraday, of course, believes Blackie has gone homicidal maniac (he at least has some evidence in this one for that), and is incompetently trying to jail him as Blackie goes after the real killer. The plot has possibilities, but any time any real tension gets going, we a get a not funny comedy routine. It doesn't seem like anyone at Columbia understood that, in a movie about a pursuit of a really dangerous maniac, cute little comedy scenes about hiding an inconvenient body from the inspector disrupt any willing suspension of disbelief. (One just concludes our clever hero is an idiot -- deadly for a film like this.)
This one is not worth the time. For a well plotted episode of this series, see Alias Boston Blackie.
This one involves Blackie chasing an escapee from the asylum (Steve Cochran in a really poor performance) who has become fixated on beautiful Nina Foch (who puts in a nice, rather subtle acting job). Inspector Farraday, of course, believes Blackie has gone homicidal maniac (he at least has some evidence in this one for that), and is incompetently trying to jail him as Blackie goes after the real killer. The plot has possibilities, but any time any real tension gets going, we a get a not funny comedy routine. It doesn't seem like anyone at Columbia understood that, in a movie about a pursuit of a really dangerous maniac, cute little comedy scenes about hiding an inconvenient body from the inspector disrupt any willing suspension of disbelief. (One just concludes our clever hero is an idiot -- deadly for a film like this.)
This one is not worth the time. For a well plotted episode of this series, see Alias Boston Blackie.
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- Release date
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- Also known as
- Blackie's Rendezvous
- Filming locations
- 313 W. 8th St., Los Angeles, California, USA(Blackie's cab speeds past the old Olympic theatre in downtown L.A.)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945) officially released in Canada in English?
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