The Silk Lined Burglar

The Silk Lined Burglar

60 mins | Mystery | March 31, 1919

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.

The Silk Lined Burglar

60 mins | Mystery | March 31, 1919

The Silk Lined Burglar
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.
Producers Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Original title The Silk Lined Burglar
Directors John Francis Dillon
Writers Jack Boyle, Fred Myton

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