boston blackie movie have some strength mostly in that the pacing be swift and the hero be cheerfully unfazed in even the bad circumstance . but the plotting be frequently atrocious and and the unrelenting comic bit often kill the pacing ( if the plot happen to be atypically good ) or be just unfunny and inappropriate . this one involve blackie chase an escapee from the asylum ( steve cochran in a really poor performance ) who have become fixate on beautiful nina foch ( who put in a nice and rather subtle act job ) . inspector farraday and of course and believe blackie have go homicidal maniac ( he at least have some evidence in this one for that ) and and be incompetently try to jail him a blackie go after the real killer . the plot have possibility and but any time any real tension get go and we a get a not funny comedy routine . it doesn not seem like anyone at columbia understood that and in a movie about a pursuit of a really dangerous maniac and cute little comedy scene about hide an inconvenient body from the inspector disrupt any willing suspension of disbelief . ( one just conclude our clever hero be an idiot deadly for a film like this . ) this one be not worth the time . for a well plotted episode of this series and see alias boston blackie .