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Blackie's Redemption

An absorbing drama of the underworld
Apr 14, 1919 · 50m
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Crime
Drama
Romance

PLOT

Shrewd crook Boston Blackie is determined to go straight. At a celebration held on the eve of his marriage to Mary Dawson, Fred the Count plants a stolen jewel and Blackie is arrested and sentenced to twenty years in jail. Fred the Count tries to win Blackie's fiancée, but the honorable Mary rejects him. Blackie's only hope for escape is from the hospital, so he manages to get into a weakened state. He escapes from the hospital, but is trailed by the warden. Blackie refuses to shoot the defenseless man, and the warden recognizes Blackie as an honorable person and allows him to escape. Blackie frames the Count, and leaves for Honolulu with Mary

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CAST

Bert Lytell
Boston Blackie
Alice Lake
Mary Dawson
Henry Kolker
Fred the Count
Bernard J. Durning
Sober Dent
Jack Duffy
The Dove
Gertrude Short
Baby Doll
Joseph Kilgour
The Warden
William Musgrave
Little Squirrel
Directed by John Ince

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Metro Pictures Corporation
Country
US

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