Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture is a 1949 mystery film directed by Seymour Friedman, starring Chester Morris, in this film, the last of Columbia's Boston Blackie fourteen pictures (1941–49). Richard Lane, who plays Boston's long-suffering Inspector Farraday, was the only other character in all fourteen of the Boston Blackie films. George E. Stone, playing Blackie's sidekick, his dim-witted crony The Runt, was not in the first or last film but was in all the others. Charles Wagenheim played The Runt in the first film and Sid Tomack in the last.[1][2]
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| Directed by | Seymour Friedman |
| Produced by | Rudolph Flothow |
| Written by | Maurice Tombragel |
| Starring | Chester Morris Maylia Fong Richard Lane |
| Music by | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
| Cinematography | Vincent J. Farrar |
| Edited by | Richard Fantl |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation |
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Running time | 59 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot summary
Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his side-kick The Runt (Sid Tomack) find themselves accused of murder after they are seen exiting a Chinese laundry where the proprietor is soon found murdered. Blackie must find the real killers before he gets in real trouble.[3]
Cast
- Chester Morris as Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
- Maylia Fong as Mei Ling
- Richard Lane as Inspector William R. Farraday
- Don McGuire as Les, the Bus Guide
- Joan Woodbury as Red, the Bar-Girl
- Sid Tomack as The Runt
- Frank Sully as Detective Sergeant Matthews
- Charles Arnt as Pop Gerard
- Luis Van Rooten as Bill Craddock (as Louis Van Rooten)
- Philip Ahn as Wong Chung Shee