Columbia Pictures
Boston Blackie Collection
The Chance of a Lifetime
ARRESTED FOR A MURDER HE DIDN'T COMMIT!
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
- Original title
- The Chance of a Lifetime
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Jan 11, 2024 · via TMDB
This time, "Boston" (Chester Morris) comes up with a proposal to the Governor that would allow some trusted prisoners to come and work in a factory to assist with the war effort. He agrees that they can live at his apartment but before long is embroiled in a plan to prove that "Dooley" (Erik Rolf) was set up for a murder he didn't commit. Unusually, "Insp. Faraday" (Richard Lane) is in on the plot to use "Blackie" as bait for the real criminal - well, him and $60,000 - and using some sleight of hand and his gang of well-meaning convicts lays a trap for... This doesn't hang about, is tightly cast with series regulars and with a more solid story than many of the other outings for an on form Morris, it passes an hour with a few red herrings and a precarious window-dangled confession at the end.
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Chester Morris
Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Erik Rolf
Dooley Watson
Jeanne Bates
Mary Watson
Richard Lane
Insp. John Farraday
George E. Stone
The Runt
Lloyd Corrigan
Arthur Manleder
Douglas Fowley
Nails Blanton (Uncredited)
Sid Melton
Benny Hines (Uncredited)
Ray Teal
Policeman Joe (Uncredited)
Maude Eburne
Edna Counihan (Uncredited)
Arthur Hunnicutt
Elwood "Tex" Stewart (Uncredited)
Cy Kendall
Jumbo Madigan (Uncredited)
Pierre Watkin
State Governor Rutledge (Uncredited)
Walter Sande
Detective Sergeant Matthews (Uncredited)
Richard Alexander
Carpet Man (Uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
Woman in Hallway (Uncredited)
Trevor Bardette
Manny Vogel (Uncredited)
Eddie Bruce
Sandy (Uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
Policeman Frank (Uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
Reporter at Parole Board Hearing (Uncredited)
Minta Durfee
Woman in Hallway (Uncredited)
Joel Friedkin
Joe Painter (Uncredited)
Kit Guard
Wilfred Thompson (Uncredited)
John Harmon
Red Taggart (Uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Parole Board Member (Uncredited)
George Magrill
Policeman (Uncredited)
Forbes Murray
Chairman of Parole Board (Uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Policeman (Uncredited)
Harry Semels
Jerome Wagner (Uncredited)
John Tyrrell
Driver (Uncredited)
Friedrich Hollaender
Additional Music
Sidney Cutner
Additional Music
Chuck Hamilton
Stunts
Eddie Parker
Stunts
George Magrill
Stunts
Matty Roubert
Stunts
Earl Bellamy
Assistant Director
William Castle
Director
Wallace MacDonald
Producer
Morris Stoloff
Music Director
Crooked Alley
The Silk Lined Burglar
Missing Millions
Boston Blackie
The Face in the Fog
The Return of Boston Blackie
Trapped by Boston Blackie
Blue Hill Avenue
Boston Blackie and the Law
Boston Blackie's Little Pal
The Phantom Thief
Confessions of Boston Blackie
Meet Boston Blackie
Surviving the Game
One Mysterious Night
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Alias Boston Blackie
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
At the End of the Cul-de-sac
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Al filo de la muerte
Hrobník
Credo
The Asphalt Jungle
Another Thin Man
The Thin Man Goes Home
The Outfit
Shadow of the Thin Man
Plunder Road
The Black Book
A Working Man
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
The Blue Gardenia
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Belly
The Losers
All the Devils Are Here
God Is a Bullet
Overdrive
Five Minutes of Heaven
Wrong Cops
The Corrupted
In Cold Light
Sudden Death
10th & Wolf
Absolution
Welcome to the Punch
Ca$h
Brake
Thirteen at Dinner
Oct 26, 1943
