Jack Boyle

Blackie is enlisted by the police to help recover the Blue Star of the Nile diamond, stolen from a war relief exhibit. (imdb)

Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend. (imdb)

Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show. (imdb)

Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape. (imdb)

Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidentally sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction. (imdb)

Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond. (imdb)

Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown. (imdb)

Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree. (imdb)

An ex-thief helps some fellow ex-cons adjust to life as defense workers, only to get involved with a robbery investigation. (TCM.com)

A reformed thief fights to clear himself of murder charges. (TCM.com)

Blackie is accused of murdering a man at an art auction, which leads to the uncovering of an art racket. (imdb)

Blackie tricks a blackmailer-murderer into a confession. Story involves sinister séances and ghostly apparitions. (imdb)

Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it. (imdb)

Just out of jail and vowing to go straight, former jewel thief Boston Blackie, undertakes the reformation of a pretty blonde who has stolen a necklace from a cabaret dancer. He learns that the jewel belongs to the mother of the blonde girl, and the blonde's philandering father gave it as a gift to the cabaret girl. Now, Blackie must find a way to return the necklace to the owner's safe without arousing the suspicions of the girl's family.

A reformed crook gets tangled up in the affairs of a Grand Duchess who has escaped from Soviet Russia with some of the Romanoff jewels. (AllMovie)

Blackie, a former prison inmate, campaigns to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to the prison, but his evil schemes are ultimately thwarted by Blackie's girlfriend, who manages to alert the governor.