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The plot itself was very good, but what really stood out in this first Falcon movie was the amazingly witty dialog! Plots, characters and pacing is often so similar that they don't seem to stand out. All in all, I can't think of another B-detective film that's made me laugh as much.
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I actually preferred this series of films after Tom Conway took over from his half brother George Sanders as the Falcon, Conway seemed more at ease in the role.
The Falcon was lucky in that he never had trouble having beautiful young (and older) women fall for him - a couple a film. When Sanders tired of B leads, he bowed out of the series in The Falcon's Brother (1942). One scene I always enjoy is that of Turhan Bey's strangely atmospheric apartment being searched by Sanders and Barrie in the dark.
Gay realized she must be involved when Goldie was kidnapped; nobody else knew where Goldie was at the time.
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The killer is seen by Goldie as he makes his getaway.Detective Bates Edward Brophy and Detective Grimes Eddie Dunn take Goldie to the police station on suspicion of murder.
The 1941 film The Gay Falcon redefined the character as a suave English gentleman detective with a weakness for beautiful women. Neither in films nor on radio was the nickname ever explained.
The Gay Falcon was intended to establish a replacement character for Leslie Charteris's The Saint (Simon Templar), who had appeared in a popular RKO film series.
Then he and Helen go to see Maxine, leaving Goldie in the car. At the beginning of the film he has set up shop as a broker on Wall Street to satisfy his fiancée that he is through with "crime detecting" as she calls it and wants to settle down, although when she drops in to visit both The Falcon and his assistant Goldy Locke are dead asleep at their desks.
She tells them she has been receiving threats, so they stand guard in the living room while she sleeps. Weber orders Goldie to call Gay to offer to trade Goldie’s life for the diamond. You'd have to see it to understand Sander's mixed emotions in that scene! But there's plenty of enjoyable moments in the 63 minutes - Sanders previously intrigued by an undertaker giggling at a comic paper is a few scenes later briefly studying one for himself - an aspect of ordinary life that he hadn't investigated before perhaps?
"So it was astonishing to them when Tom Conway caught on right away and carried the series on – even outgrossing the pictures George had made." After The Falcon's Brother, Conway starred in nine more Falcon films through 1946.
As with other series of B mystery films, the plot of a Falcon movie generally revolved around a particular locale that the detective was visiting.
The character went on to appear (as Michael Waring) in radio and television – Charles McGraw portrayed the Falcon in the 39-episode syndicated television series Adventures of the Falcon (1954–55).