Boston Blackie’s Chinese Venture
Created by pulp writer Jack Boyle,
Boston Blackie
was a reformed thief who always found himself accused of crimes he had
nothing to do with (think of him as a blue-collar Lone Wolf). Chester
Morris played him in 14 fast-moving comedy-mysteries, and in this, the
last of the series, Blackie is accused of murdering a Chinese laundry
owner. With perennial nemeses Insp. Farraday (Richard Lane) and Sgt.
Matthews (Frank Sully) on his tail, Blackie and sidekick The Runt (Sid
Tomack) are once again in a deadly race to clear themselves before their
fortune cookies are permanently crumbled. Don McGuire, Joan Woodbury,
Philip Ahn, Benson Fong, Victor Sen Yung and the beauteous Maylia
(Fong’s wife) co-star. Don’t expect the typical Hollywood stereotypes to
be trotted out for this one; there are some incredibly incisive and
humorous observations about 1940s race relations wrapped into this comic
adventure. Newly remastered and available from
Nostalgia Merchant.
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