One Mysterious Night (1944)
At the Rialto
A.W.
Published: October 21, 1944
If Columbia is attempting to scotch the Boston Blackie legend it has been nurturing so diligently these last few years "One Mysterious Night" should come close to doing the trick. This latest chapter in that screen detective's melodramatic career, which arrived at the Rialto yesterday, is as unsatisfying as a blank cartridge in a gunman's gat. The redoubtable Blackie too, has the look of a man whose patience is being sorely tried, despite his standard, hardjawed exterior. And, although this slow fiction about a stolen diamond offers two murders and an occasional bit of gunplay, it still adds up to much sound and very little fury.
As Boston Blackie, Chester Morris again makes the best of his now familiar assignment, while Janis Carter plays one of the most improbable reporters ever to grace the screen, much less a city room. Crime, judging by the constabulary in "One Mysterious Night" should pay—and very well, too.
ONE MYSTERIOUS NIGHT; original screen play by Paul Yawitz; based upon the character created by Jack Boyle; directed by Oscar Boetticher Jr.; produced by Ted Richmond for Columbia.
Boston Blackie . . . . . Chester Morris
Inspector Farraday . . . . . Richard Lane
Dorothy Anderson . . . . . Janis Carter
Paul Martens . . . . . William Wright
Matt Healy . . . . . Robert Williams
The Runt . . . . . George E. Stone
Eileen Daley . . . . . Dorothy Maloney
George Daley . . . . . Robert E. Scott
Matthews . . . . . Lyle Latell
Jumbo Madigan . . . . . Joseph Crehan
