Blackie’s Redemption
Also known as Redenção in Brazil; Ein guter Kerl im Sträflingskittel oder Das Recht auf Leben in Germany
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by John Ince
Cast: Bert Lytell [Boston Blackie], Alice Lake [Mary Dawson], Henry Kolker [Fred the Count], Bernard J. Durning [Sober Dent], Jack Duffy [‘The Dove’], William Musgrave [‘Little Squirrel’], Gertrude Short [‘Baby Doll’], Don Bailey [the chief of detectives], Wilton Taylor [Detective Mack], Ah Toy [the Chinese waiter], Joseph Kilgour [the warden]
Metro Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Supervising producer, Maxwell Karger. Scenario by Finis Fox, from the short stories “Boston Blackie’s Mary” and “Fred the Count” by Jack Boyle. Cinematography by Robert B. Kurrle. / © 21 April 1919 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP 13629]. Released 14 April 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working titles: Out of the Depths and Powers That Pray. The film was released in Germany as Ein guter Kerl im Sträflingskittel oder Das Recht auf Leben by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA] in 1921.
Drama: Crime.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0368.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Frame-ups - Criminals: Thieves (Rehabilitated) - Escapes: Prison - Fidelity - Jewelry - Medical: Hospitals - Prisons: Wardens
Listing updated: 4 September 2018.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0368; Steinbrunner-Encyclopedia p. 40 : Website-IMDb.
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