Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
★ 5.6 · 1942 · 68m · Crime · Mystery
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
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