Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS***"Confessions of Boston Blackie" is the 2nd of the "Boston Blackie" series sandwiched between "Meet Boston Blackie" and "Alies Boston Blackie" with of course the smooth talking and quick thinking Chester Morris in the lead role. It's here that Blackie while attending an art auction-just to pass the time of day-gets involved in a murder. That he in trying to prevent the person selling the statue of Augustus Caesar the intended victim Diane Parrish, Harriet Nelson, from getting gunned down is accused of shooting the man who's to buy the piece of junk Eric Allison, Walter Soderling. As it turned out Allison was in fact shot and killed by his partner Buchanan, Ralph Theodore, by accident when he in fact tried to shoot Diane who could prove that the statue that was going for a cool $3,000.00 was a total fake. What Diane wanted to do with the cash that she got for the statue to pay for her kid brother Jimmy's , Martin Spellman, who's suffering for TB medical expenses.The rub in all this is the victim Eric Allison's body disappeared hidden inside the statue by Buchanan making it impossible the charge Blackie in his murder!It's now up to Blackie to prove himself innocent in finding Allison's body and thus proving that the bullet that killed him didn't come from his gun but from the gun of his partner in crime Buchanan. On top of all that in pops the gold digging Mona, Joan Woodbury, claiming without a shred of evidence that she's Blackie's estranged wife and want's to take him to the cleaners for every cent he's got! With the help of his friends "The Runt", George E. Stone, and Arthur Manleder, Lloyd Carrigan, Blackie is able to avoid the police lead by the bumbling Inspector Farraday,Richard Lane, until he not only tracks down Allison's body and the man Buchanan who framed him for his murder.****SPOILERS**** In a wild shootout at Buchanan's secret hideout with Blackie and everyone is the cast trapped with no way out, due to an electrical blackout, that Blackie burns the place down to get the attention of the police and fire department to come to his as well as their rescue before they all end up dying from smoke inhalation! Blackie had a great time here in his impersonation of not only a doctor who was looking after Diane in the hospital but also of the friendly "Good Humor Man" in being able to wolf down all the "Tudie Frutie" ice cream bars that he could stuff his mouth with without paying for them!

utgard14 A murder is committed at an art auction and Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) is accused of the crime. Blackie must elude Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) while trying to catch the real killer and prove his innocence. Second in the Boston Blackie series from Columbia introduces two recurring characters for the series: Inspector Farraday's sidekick Sgt. Matthews (Walter Sande) and Blackie's friend Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan). Speaking of sidekicks, Blackie's pal Runt is played for the first time by George E. Stone, who would go on to play the role in eleven more films. Also in the cast are lovely actresses Joan Woodbury and Harriet Hilliard. Fast pace and lots of action and humor make this a highly entertaining entry in the series.

calvinnme No wonder Chester Morris as Blackie is smiling so slyly through this film - he's the smartest guy in the room!. A group of art thieves are taking legitimate works of art to auction, making replicas, and then selling the replica and keeping the original. This time, though, the owner of the work up for auction gets suspicious in the middle of the auction, stands up, and declares there is something wrong. One of the bad guys thinks the simple thing to do - knowing there are cops in the audience - is shoot the owner! Blackie,also in the audience, is conveniently armed and shoots at the shooter. His shot causes the original bad guy to miss and shoot his own partner through the heart.Of course the cops don't look any further than Blackie, but he easily gets away. The bottom line of this fast paced Boston Blackie entry is the police apparently can't count shots or do geometry or they would have known Blackie could not have fired all of those shots at those angles from where he was, don't even notice the body of the auctioneer for a good while, and never stop and ask themselves WHY would Blackie shoot at all of these people.Now let's turn our attention to the IQ of the art thieves. They make hollowed out statue replicas that anyone that knows art could spot in 10 seconds, install secret panels in their statues which is a big tipoff that this is not an original, and insist on having their art studio in what is obviously an underground death trap under the right circumstances - it wouldn't take OSHA to spot the hazard here. And if their goal is to ultimately steal the original, why not just do that in the first place rather than stage this elaborate ruse with poorly made replicas? So why watch this theatre of the absurd? Mainly because of the wit and wisdom of Chester Morris as Boston Blackie plus it's just plain fun. On the lighter side we get to see Blackies's sidekick, the runt, attempt to evict an amazon who claims to be Blackie's wife from Blackie's apartment. Recommended for the fun of it all.

whpratt1 Love these low budget films that were produced during the 1940's and by a great producer, Edward Dmytryk who created many of these Boston Blackie films. Chester Morris,(Boston Blackie) gets himself involved with Harriet Hillard, (Diane Parrish) who has put up a valuable statue for an art auction which is run by a crooked organization of hoods who copy great treasures of art and sell the phony reproductions. There is a man who gets murdered and his body is hidden in a statue with a secret door on the back. Richard Lane, (Inspector Farraday) is always after Boston Blackie for stealing a pearl and also gets himself running around in circles trying to find something to arrest Boston Blackie and his sidekick George E. Stone, (The Runt). In this film, Harriet Hillard is the wife of Ozzie Nelson who made famous their favorite TV Show.