The Silk Lined Burglar

It's the Newest Boston Blackie Story

Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, who claims a moral right to the safe's contents. She hires Blackie, and they break into the house where the safe is kept. Blackie blows up the safe just as owner Captain von Hoffmeier returns home. Doris disappears with papers from inside the safe, while Blackie takes phonograph records, which, when played with a special needle, reveal secrets that implicate von Hoffmeier as a German political spy.

• Release date
• March 31, 1919
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Mystery
• Director
• John Francis Dillon

Cast

Priscilla Dean Doris Macon Ashton Dearholt Robert Melchoir Sam De Grasse Boston Blackie Sam Appel Michael Delano Lillian West Mary Fred Kelsey Capt. von Hoffmeier