Title: Strictly By The Numbers (and fairly low numbers at that)
Product review: Boston Blackie and his sidekick "Runt" go through the standard paces in a strictly by the numbers episode of their series in "A Close Call for Boston Blackie". I've collected 6 espisodes of this series and so far this is the least insteresting of them. Though the history of the Boston Blackie charactor goes back a while, the film series follows the far more successful Thin Man series in production, without that series wonderful witty writting, acting or production. Boston Blackie is produced on a shoestring and the writting is very low grade and simple. The cookie cutter police charactors of Farraday and his dim witted side kick would make you wonder if they could solve any case beyond jay walking. If you want clever, intelligent mystery/detective writting, watch the Thin Man, Miss Marple or Philo Vance series, leave Boston Blackie on the shelf.
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