Feature Type: B&W, Silent
Date/Studio: 1919, Universal
Running Time: 72 minutes
Director: John Francis Dillon
Producer: Carl Laemmle
Screenplay: Fred Myton
Photography: Jack Freulich
Cameraman: Ben Reynolds

Starring: Sam de Grasse as Boston Blackie

Also starring:
Priscilla Dean as Doris Macon
Ashton Dearholt as Robert Melchoir
Sam Appel as Michael Delano
Lillian West as Mary
Fred Kelsey as Captain von Hoffmeier

Rating: * *

SYNOPSIS:
Boston Blackie (Sam DeGrasse) finds an ad in the newspaper from someone looking for a safecracker. He arranges a meeting, and the ad's writer turns out to be Doris Macon, a beautiful but very nervous young woman (Priscilla Dean). Doris explains that she needs the contents of a certain safe removed, and she is willing to pay him well for his efforts. He accepts the job and they go to the house (and safe) in question. Just as the safe's door is being blown off, its owner (Fred Kelsey) enters. In a frenzy, he dashes -- not to the safe, but to the gramophone, and as Blackie and Doris try to make their escape, Blackie snatches a handful of records and the needle. They are caught by secret service men, but It turns out Doris is the girlfriend of one of the men, Robert Melchoir (Ashton Dearholt), and she was helping him get evidence on the safe's owner, under suspicious as a spy. The papers Doris took from the safe reveal nothing, but the records Blackie took, when played with that special needle, reveal government secrets.