"Fiction and Radio's thrill idol...at his eeriest best!"02 May 1946Crime, Mystery65 mins
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison.
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Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house.
Keisuke, a 10-year-old boy, living hard despite being abused by his father, finds a ray of light in the midst of his suffering and conflict ---- a shogi world where he fights quietly and passionately in his sharpened senses.
Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to get revenge on those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance.
A séance proves a ghost compelled a spiritualist to kill his rich father.
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The Phantom Thief - Trailer
When some valuable gems are heisted Chester Morris as reformed thief Boston Blackie is hot on the trail. He follows the clues to a medium with shady ...
The Phantom Thief - Trailer
When some valuable gems are heisted Chester Morris as reformed thief Boston Blackie is hot on the trail. He follows the clues to a medium with shady ...
The Phantom Thief - Trailer
When some valuable gems are heisted Chester Morris as reformed thief Boston Blackie is hot on the trail. He follows the clues to a medium with shady ...
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