Blackie's Redemption (1919)

Blackie's Redemption

1919

Crime Drama Romance

Synopsis

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

Credits

Director

John Ince

Cast

Alice Lake as Mary Dawson

Bernard J. Durning as Sober Dent

Bert Lytell as Boston Blackie

Don Bailey as Chief of Detectives

Gertrude Short as Baby Doll

Henry Kolker as Fred the Count

Jack Duffy as The Dove

Joseph Kilgour as The Warden