The Beloved Blackmailer

The story involves a poor little rich boy, a victim of an extremely over mothering mother that, though he's in his thirties she treats him like a sick 6 foot tall baby. That he has gone along with it until now says something about his character, but he joins in a plot to appear that he's kidnapped, and hide out at a boxing retreat to train him to be a he-man. A sub plot involving a cover for the plot with the "kidnappers" demanding a stock price manipulation of Father's railroad seems unnecessary and only believable to those who don't understand how stock markets work.

Blackwell has a face somewhat like Ray Milland, but a rather thin, small body.

With the petty embarrassments, fights and small heroics, this whole story would seem like an extended Harold Lloyd short, but lacking the slick editing and slapstick gags. Nevertheless, some good fun.