Missing Millions (1922)
$2,000,000 Missing! Here's the most exciting crook-thriller ever filmed. greatest of all the "Boston Blackie" romances.
장르 : 범죄, 드라마
상영시간 : 1시간 0분
연출 : Joseph Henabery
시놉시스
A girl seeks revenge after a Wall Street broker had falsely accused her father and sent him unjustly to prison.
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, who claims a moral right to the safe's contents. She hires Blackie, and they break into the house where the safe is kept. Blackie blows up the safe just as owner Captain von Hoffmeier returns home. Doris disappears with papers from inside the safe, while Blackie takes phonograph records, which, when played with a special needle, reveal secrets that implicate von Hoffmeier as a German political spy.
Boston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of terrorists is after the jewels.
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
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.
Reformed criminal Boston Blackie is outraged when a judge refuses to grant a pardon for a dying friend. He hires Norine, his now-dead friend's daughter, to get to the judge through his son Rudy. However, things don't work out quite as Blackie had planned.
A girl seeks revenge after a Wall Street broker had falsely accused her father and sent him unjustly to prison.
Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to the prison, but his evil schemes are ultimately thwarted by Mary Carter, Blackie's girlfriend, who manages to alert the governor.
While burgling a mansion, Blackie is interrupted by little Joey, who has been awakened from his slumbers. Blackie gently orders the kid to return to bed, but Joey refuses to do so unless Blackie helps him say his prayers. Thus is formed a strong friendship between Blackie and his "little pal," inspiring our raffish hero to rescue Joey's mother Rosemary Theby from a scandalous situation.
할리우드의 극작가 벤은 의사도, 가족도 포기해버린 중증의 알콜 중독자다. 그는 자포자기한 심정으로 좋아하는 술을 실컷 마시다 죽어버릴 결심을 한 후, 라스베가스로로 향한다. 그런 그의 앞에 창녀 세라가 나타난다. 우연한 인연으로 자꾸 부딪치던 두 사람은 운명적인 사랑에 빠져든다. 악덕 포주 유리의 손아귀에서 빠져나올 수 없는 세라는 계속 일을 해야만 하고, 벤은 쇼핑하듯 온갖 종류의 술을 사다 끝없이 마시면서 사랑을 이어가지만...
스토퍼(젠스 알비누스)와 그의 친구들은 삼촌의 저택에 모여 백치 행위에 몰두하며 살게 된다. 아들을 잃어 마음 속에 상처를 입은 카렌(보딜 조르겐센)은 아이의 장례식 전날 우연히 한 레스토랑에서 이들을 만나게 된다. 처음에 백치들의 행동에 불쌍함을 느끼고 합류한 카렌은 이들의 백치 행동이 약속된 게임임을 알고 흥분한다. 멤버들은 분열되기 시작하고 스토퍼는 마지막으로 한 가지 제안을 하게 된다. 자신들의 백치 행위가 진실한 것임을 증명하기 위해 이들을 가장 아끼고 사랑하는 가족들 앞에서 백치 행위를 하는 것이다. 모두의 동의하에 시도하지만 멤버들의 대부분이 실패하고 그룹은 와해된다. 이를 안타깝게 지켜보던 카렌은 멤버 중 한 명을 데리고 자신의 집으로 간다. 굳은 결심을 하고 집으로 돌아온 카렌에게 가족들은 냉담하게 대하지만 결국 카렌은 자신의 진실을 표현한다.