A wealthy woman's secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer's jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. The Falcon is blamed when the jewels are stolen and murders en... Read allA wealthy woman's secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer's jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. The Falcon is blamed when the jewels are stolen and murders ensue.A wealthy woman's secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer's jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. The Falcon is blamed when the jewels are stolen and murders ensue.
Paula Corday
- Joan Meredith
- (as Rita Corday)
Jason Robards Sr.
- Harvey Beaumont
- (as Jason Robards)
Bonnie Blair
- Phone Operator
- (scenes deleted)
Eddie Borden
- Postman
- (uncredited)
Edward Clark
- Coroner
- (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
- Detective Williams
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe 12th of 16 movies about the suave detective nicknamed "The Falcon" released from 1941 to 1949.
- GoofsWhen Goldie sets the smoky fire in the hotel room, the window is only open a few inches and the sheer curtains are closed. He then hides in the closet. But, when seen from outside, the window is open much wider and the curtains are open as well.
- Quotes
Tom Lawrence: Goldie, you'd better keep Mrs. Peabody company.
Goldie Locke: Thanks boss, that's mighty white of you.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Falcon's Adventure (1946)
Featured review
The Falcon Meets Jane Greer
This is the twelfth Falcon film. It has exciting appearances in it of Jane Greer, aged 22 but looking and behaving 32, and Elisha Cook, Junior. This is apparently the only film in which Jane Greer plays a singer, and she sings very well. Her song is absolutely extraordinary in that the lyrics feature planned silences and hesitating phrases which drop out of the rhythm, and frankly I have never heard a song pull off such tricks successfully, and the film is worth seeing for the song, not because the melody is any good, but because the song is musically unique as far as I know and would repay close study and analysis by any serious song writer. Elisha Cook gets to do more acting than usual in this film, and he is even scarier than usual, and completely convincing, as always. Jane Greer did not become a noted noir player until the following year, and was still obscure at this stage. Jean Brooks is in this one, but gets very little screen time and her presence is frankly wasted. I guess because she was part of the team, they were inventing a pretext for her to have a fee. We get to see her in a revealing gown with exposed back, which menacing ice maidens don't normally show, but that's about all. Rita Corday is in this one too, and she gets a big part and shines. Vince Barnett is much less annoying as Goldie the sidekick than the atrocious Edward Brophy in the preceding film, though he still gets on one's nerves. The film was well directed by Ray McCarey, who died only two years later at the age of only 44. Believe it or not, I actually knew the man who wrote the story for this film, whose name was Manny Seff. He was a very delightful and amusing guy, a great conversationalist, story teller, and joke cracker, who was getting old when I was very young, and it adds dimension to an old movie when you can say: 'There's Manny Seff's name as the writer!' He is exactly the kind of fellow I had always imagined writing these stories, and there suddenly his name appeared on the screen to prove it. I can't say it was a total surprise, it just seemed so appropriate. Judging from what I know of him, and guess about the others, these people must all have had a lot of fun making these films, which is probably one reason why they are so entertaining.
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- robert-temple-1
- Dec 29, 2007
Details
- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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