The Silk Lined Burglar
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Jack Dillon
Director
Priscilla Dean
Doris Macon
Ashton Dearholt
Robert Melchoir
Sam De Grasse
Boston Blackie
Sam Appel
Michael Delano
Lillian West
Mary
Film Details
Release Date
Mar
31,
1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Distribution Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Miss Doris, Safe-cracker" by Jack Boyle in The Red Book Magazine (May 1918).
Synopsis
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. Doris is actually the girl friend of a secret service man who has followed them to the house. Blackie's talents are praised, and he goes to work for the government.
Director
Jack Dillon
Director
Cast
Priscilla Dean
Doris Macon
Ashton Dearholt
Robert Melchoir
Sam De Grasse
Boston Blackie
Sam Appel
Michael Delano
Lillian West
Mary
Fred Kelsey
Capt. von Hoffmeier
Film Details
Release Date
Mar
31,
1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Distribution Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Miss Doris, Safe-cracker" by Jack Boyle in The Red Book Magazine (May 1918).
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Wid's lists the cameraman as B. F. Reynolds.
