Date/Studio: 1946, Columbia Pictures Corporation
Running Time: 66 minutes
Director: David Ross Lederman
Producer: Ted Richmond
Assistant Director: Ben Kadish
Screenplay: Harry J. Essex
Additional Dialogue: Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Director of Photography: George B. Meehan
Editor: James Sweeney
Art Director: Charles Clague
Set Decorator: Bill Calvert
Music Director: Mischa Bakaleinkoff
Sound: Philip Faulkner

STARRING:
Chester Morris as Boston Blackie
Trudy Marshall as Irene
Constance Dowling as Dinah Moran
Richard Lane as Inspector Farrady
George E. Stone as The Runt
Frank Sully as Sgt. Matthews
Rating: * * 1/2

SYNOPSIS:
This twelfth entry in Columbia's "Boston Blackie" series is essentially a remake of 1942's Alias Boston Blackie. In the original, a falsely accused convict (Larry Parks) escapes while Blackie (Chester Morris) is putting on a magic show for a men's prison, prompting Blackie to stop the escapee before he can kill the man who framed him. In the remake, Blackie stages yet another magic act, this time at a woman's prison. Sure enough, a female inmate (Constance Dowling) escapes, determined to wreak vengeance on the man who done her wrong. Implicated in the escape, Blackie manages to clear himself and to extract a recorded confession from the actual killer. In both the original and the remake, Chester Morris is given ample opportunity to show off his considerable skills as a magician.