Boston Blackie

As I told you, I'm supervisor for Herald Productions.

We're making a big picture here, and we have a safe-cracking scene here.

We just want to make sure we don't have our man open a safe that can't be opened, and we want to make sure that when he does open it, he opens it properly.

Well, that should be simple.

But it's not so simple when you don't know anything about safes or how to open them.

We'd like you to give us a little technical advice.

I'm sorry, Mr. Smith, but giving advice is a little out of my line.

Let me suggest it might be a good thing for you to do.

I asked for that, didn't I, Mary?

Look, Blackie, we'll pay you for your services.

Isn't this all a little silly?

Of course not.

We do this all the time.

When we make a picture involving airplanes, we get a pilot for technical advisor.

When we do a sea story, a seaman advises us.

Mary, there's a credit line for everybody at the beginning of pictures.

Look, Blackie, all you have to do is come down to the studio while we're making the safe-cracking scenes.

How about it, Blackie?

Oh, all right.

Maybe a movie studio is the one place in the world I won't run into Inspector Faraday.