Blackie's Redemption

An absorbing drama of the underworld

Blackie's Redemption — Plot

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

• Release date
• April 14, 1919
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Crime, Drama, Romance
• Director
• John Ince

Blackie's Redemption — Cast

Bert Lytell Boston Blackie Alice Lake Mary Dawson Henry Kolker Fred the Count Bernard J. Durning Sober Dent Jack Duffy The Dove Gertrude Short Baby Doll Joseph Kilgour The Warden

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William Musgrave Little Squirrel