(1952) Boston Blackie Queen of Thieves

[@michaelmitchell5098]

Thanks for this post! We can’t lose history no matter what!

[@anthonycrnkovich5241]

I have the entire BOSTON BLACKIE TV series on DVD. Kent Taylor was a fine actor dating back to the 1930s, and he makes an excellent small screen Blackie. The great Chester Morris essayed the role in 14 feature films as well as on radio.

[@TheBonzaiEmperor]

All true but I also loved Richard Kolmer's radio version of Blackie.

[@Johnnycdrums]

What was he driving? It looks crazy.

[@rozann9223]

What a kick this show was! Mary Young,the actress who played Needles, was well into her 70’s when she did this show! She lived to be 92. Great gal!

[@Johnnycdrums]

They aged her up for the role, too.

[@alecwilliams7111]

Thanks for bringing back "Boston Blackie." As a small child, I watched these devotedly on an old RCA black and white set. He had a dog named Whitey, and I had one named Boston Blackie.

[@TheBonzaiEmperor]

cool, I like that.

[@josephfinnegan151]

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[@raysmith7543]

Good stuff. I had forgotten all about Boston Blackie. I remember watching this show when I was a kid.

[@LoveEm-r9i]

That lady playing so good !!! Thank you

[@walterwheeler5465]

Excellent audio and visual from a television program aired in the early 1950's. The plot and acting were good.

[@nunzioc8931]

love the old time radio shows of boston blackie.....

[@DAUGHTEROFBABYLON]

Used-to-wake-up-before-dawn-on-Saturday........God-Bless-Everyone!

[@lamonthamilton667]

Thank You and you too.

[@SuperIliad]

“Queen of Thieves,” Season 2, Episode 8, aired 5 December 1952. Kent Taylor as Boston Blackie, Frank Orth as Inspector Faraday, Lois Collier as Mary Wesley, Mary Young as Needles, Skelton Knaggs as Archie the Dip, John Cason as Knot Head, Don Peters, Henchman, Earle Hodgins (as Earl Hodgins) as Duke, Reed Howes as Det. Dawsoon, Troy Melton as Uniformed Cop.

[@usermikes]

I remember watching this show as a kid back in the 1950's.

[@TheBonzaiEmperor]

I could watch these no stop for weeks.

[@josephfinnegan151]

75,725 View's So Far: Boston Blackie: 34. Season 2. Episode 8. "Queen of Thieves". Saturday, May 20 - 2023.

[@mmoser9483]

It is a joke how someone would stop people from viewing these movies.. the greed of this society is terrible. something that has been released for over 60 years and they still want to keep a strangle hold on who watches it.

[@michaelhoffman5486]

just good ole capitalism my friend and stranglhold is so the right word

[@sandrad7588]

watched with my mom when I was very young

[@g.h.1472]

yes it is rather silly to try an ban all of these gens fantastic shows that have some how lasted through the times such as any thing like old documents we have to be cleared to view a simple movie. wake up smell what is burning we need help to restore an have anacount for these great works of an for us an future times. thanks for the post. an for a good load..... remember this is art...

[@jackielovercheck3673]

If you are talking about the car Needles is driving ...it is an old electric car. probably from somewhere from 1917 or so.

[@Johnnycdrums]

What about the convertible sled? It's crazy, it looks like a chopped Nash with fins.

[@Ramcock1]

Loved the car phone

[@TheBonzaiEmperor]

Currently doing a 'son of Boston Blackie' adaption as well as a graphic novel. Blackie and also Richard Diamond defined the best of the detective era.

[@vawlkee51]

A mobile phone in a model T??? Haw haw haw! Amazing!

[@kevinkurtz9889]

What kind of car Blackie driving?

[@michaeldanello3966]

They made phones available for installation in cars starting in 1946. They were extremely pricey. Even in early 1970s some people I knew were paying $700 to $1,500 a month -- it was more a status symbol but I suppose heavy hitters or high rollers could afford them and get good use from them

[@Johnnycdrums]

@@michaeldanello3966 ; Didn't you have to make calls by way of the marine operator, and start out using "call signs?"

[@michaelhoffman5486]

techapi to tonopah driven every kind of rig thats ever been made rip lowell

[@SuperIliad]

In the Movie Magg site for SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012, Mark Gabrish Conlan wrote: “Archie (Skelton Knaggs), (as) a veteran pickpocket (…speaks with one of the worst fake British accents I’ve ever heard)..." Interesting. Skelton Knaggs was born in the Hillsborough district of Sheffield, England and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

[@SuperIliad]

@Howard Pringnitz There is where I came to know of him.

[@michaeldanello3966]

He was good in every role I saw him in. I especially liked his performance as a mute in the 69 minute 1943 Val Lewton (he alao did 2 more at RKO for Lewton) film The Ghost Ship which went unseen for about 50 years over a copyright lawsuit. He was in a lot of horror films and a couple of 1940s Dick Tracy movies. He died in 1955 at only 43 years of age from cirrhosis of the liver from his long term alcoholism

[@SuperIliad]

@@michaeldanello3966 I own a DVD set the Val Lewton Collection in which is "Ghost Ship" (1943). I had no idea it had been censored nor do I know why now.

[@SuperIliad]

Archie the Dip: A “dip” is an old term for a pickpocket.

[@michaeldanello3966]

Singer Dick Haymes and a grown up Freddie Bartholomew starred in the 1951 film St Benny the Dip where the pickpockets tried to find sanctuary posing as priests

[@robertwalker5521]

@@michaeldanello3966 "Meet Mr. Callahan" used the phrase a couple of times I luuuve that movie!

[@eddancer6469]

WOW Boston Blackie Ed

[@danielmartin3925]

My type of woman where my 6Gs

[@Horse237]

Does anyone know what make and model of car Blackie is driving?

[@Johnnycdrums]

Yeah.

[@brentsutherland6385]

Back in the day you had to go through the mobile operator to make a call from your car.

[@paul-u2y9y]

I had a guy do that to me , he took my bets on football cards which i never won at and instead of placing the bet he just pocketed the money , except one day i did win , he never showed up, i havent seen him since .

[@kennynvake4hve584]

Watch him shoot the guy on the right and the guy on the left fals down at 24:20...he he..

[@g.h.1472]

thats what happens when you get hit with a long shot. the longer the bet the bigger the pay off hes dead. ma needls dont play hes about to find out. scared bets dont hit just like playing numbers you have to a system an even then its a chance .

[@howard44mag]

7

[@kennynvake4hve584]

Does anyone know what kind of ugly car they are driving at 16:35 in the video.

[@raysmith7543]

I was wondering the same thing. I'm a car nut and I could not figure out what it was.

[@michaeldanello3966]

This is nothing more than a wild guess but it looks like a variation on a Studebaker. I think they moved to Canada around 1950 a few years before they went out of business and I am not familiar with all their models

[@coolroy4300]

@Howard Pringnitz Lol ,maybe it's a Pug ?

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

silly soap

[@SuperIliad]

“Queen of Thieves,” Season 2, Episode 8, aired 5 December 1952. Kent Taylor as Boston Blackie, Frank Orth as Inspector Faraday, Lois Collier as Mary Wesley, Mary Young as Needles, Skelton Knaggs as Archie the Dip, John Cason as Knot Head, Don Peters, Henchman, Earle Hodgins (as Earl Hodgins) as Duke, Reed Howes as Det. Dawsoon, Troy Melton as Uniformed Cop.