Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Movieland Mystery Photo

And here’s a mysterious chap…..

[Update: This this is Chester Morris in “After Midnight With Boston Blackie.” Please congratulate Bronson Bias (1), Don Danard (2), Mike Hawks (3), Kevin King (4), Rick Scott (5) and Mary Mallory (6) for identifying him.

Here’s my real reason for running the pictures:  Most of the Boston Blackie films were done on a sound stage or a back lot, but  “After Midnight With Boston Blackie” has a few street scenes during a car chase. (Ambulances, police cars and other official conveyances are never safe when Boston Blackie is around).  I don’t recognize any of them (it is “After Midnight”) but maybe someone will.

"After Midnight With Boston Blackie"

Mystery Street Scene No. 1

"After Midnight With Boston Blacike"
On the right, a mystery chop suey joint.

'After Midnight With Boston Blackie'

Mystery Streetcar No. 2.

'After Midnight With Boston Blackie'

Mystery hotel on the right.

'After Midnight With Boston Blackie'

Aha! Mystery market and real estate office!

'After Midight With Boston Blackie'
A final mystery shot.

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15 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

  1. Jenny M says:

    Dan Dailey

  2. My guess, Burt Lancaster.

  3. Lee Rivas says:

    Burt Lancaster?

  4. Bronson Bias says:

    Chester Morris – Boston Blackie

  5. Don Danard says:

    Chester Morris

  6. dewey webb says:

    Barry Atwater

  7. Gary Martin says:

    Larry Parks as Jolson …Story or Sings Again?

  8. Mike Hawks says:

    This looks like Chester Morris.

  9. Kevin King says:

    Wow, I think I just saw this on TCM in April — Chester Morris in “After Midnight with Boston Blackie” (1943).

  10. Rogét-L.A. says:

    Ronald Colman in A Double Life (1947)?

  11. Allie Francis says:

    William Holden in Father is a Bachelor?

  12. Rick Scott says:

    Looks like Chester Morris from a Boston Blackie installment

  13. Mary Mallory says:

    Chester MOrris.

  14. Lee Rivas says:

    Those Boston Blackie scenes appear to be filmed on 1st Street in what is now Little Tokyo and could that then be the “P” Car?

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