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George Sanders, original star of The Falcon film series Sanders' brother, Tom Conway, replaced Sanders as The Falcon partway through the series. Arlen's Falcon was quickly brought to the screen by RKO Radio Pictures. The 1941 film The Gay Falcon redefined the character as a suave English gentleman detective with a weakness for beautiful women ...
A Date with the Falcon (a.k.a. The Gay Falcon Steps In and A Date With Murder) is the second in a series of 16 films about the suave detective nicknamed The Falcon.The 1942 sequel features many of the same characters as the first film, The Gay Falcon (1941). [2]
George Sanders was assigned the leading role of Gay Laurence, debonair man about town always involved in murder cases. Saint author Leslie Charteris thought the resemblance between the Falcon and the Saint was obvious, and sued the studio for unfair competition.
Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders; 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television, and radio actor.He is remembered for playing suave adventurer The Falcon in a series of 1940s films and psychiatrist Dr. Louis Judd in Cat People (1942) and The Seventh Victim (1943).
The Falcon's Brother is a 1942 American crime drama film in which George Sanders, who had been portraying "The Falcon" in a series of films, appears with his real-life brother Tom Conway; with Sanders handing off the series to Conway, who would play the new Falcon in nine subsequent films. [2] [Note 1] Jane Randolph was featured in a supporting ...
The Falcon Takes Over (also known as The Falcon Steps Out), is a 1942 black-and-white mystery film directed by Irving Reis.Although the film features the Falcon and other characters created by Michael Arlen, its plot is taken from the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, My Lovely, [1] with the Falcon substituting for Chandler's archetypal private eye Philip Marlowe and the setting of New York ...
The Gay Falcon is a 1941 American mystery thriller film directed by Irving Reis and starring George Sanders, Wendy Barrie and Allen Jenkins.A B film produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, it the first in a series of sixteen films about a suave detective nicknamed The Falcon.
The Falcon Comes Back) is a 1943 American crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk and stars Tom Conway as the title character, the amateur sleuth, the Falcon. [2] Supporting roles are filled by Harriet Hilliard , Jane Randolph , Edgar Kennedy , with Cliff Edwards filling in for Allen Jenkins as the Falcon's sidekick, "Goldie" Locke. [ 3 ]