The Silk-Lined Burglar (1919)
It's the Newest Boston Blackie Story
60 min
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
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Priscilla Dean as Doris Macon
- Ashton Dearholt as Robert Melchoir
- Sam De Grasse as Boston Blackie
- Sam Appel as Michael Delano
- Lillian West as Mary
- Fred Kelsey as Capt. von Hoffmeier
Crew
- John Francis Dillon · Director
- Jack Boyle · Writer
- Fred Myton · Writer
- Jack Freulich · Cinematographer