Episode 472 - Let the Bad Guy Win (Boston Blackie, Lives of Harry Lime, & Screen Director's Playhouse)

Gentleman thieves - both reformed and otherwise - step into the spotlight this week. First, Chester Morris is Boston Blackie - enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend - in "The Missing String of Pearls" (originally aired on NBC on August 11, 1944). Then, Orson Welles reprises his Third Man role in "It's a Knockout" from the syndicated series The Lives of Harry Lime . Finally, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stars as the legendary thief in Raffles , recreated for the Screen Director's Playhouse (originally aired on NBC on September 14, 1951).