The Falcon Takes Over
The Falcon Takes Over

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One night in New York, beefy escaped convict Moose Malloy goes hunting for his ex-girlfriend Velma, leaving a trail of mayhem behind him. Velma seems to be well-hidden, and adventurer The Falcon, intrigued, investigates on his own, approaching the heart of the mystery via a varied sequence of shady characters and attractive women.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Falcon Takes Over:

George Sanders
Lynn Bari
James Gleason
Allen Jenkins
Helen Gilbert
Ward Bond

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One night in New York, beefy escaped convict Moose Malloy goes hunting for his ex-girlfriend Velma, leaving a trail of mayhem behind him. Velma seems to be well-hidden, and adventurer The Falcon, intrigued, investigates on his own, approaching the heart of the mystery via a varied sequence of shady characters and attractive women.

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User Review - 6/10 by Dave JTheme identical to "Murder My Sweet" except that this weak version was released first story written by film noir author Raymond Chandlier used as the third "Falcon" movie starring George Sanders as the title character. It has Ward Bond synonymous for starring on many John Wayne westerns, he plays a wrestling lug, Moose Mallory bent on tracking his girlfriend named Vilma. The Falcon's sidekick and partner "Goldie (Allen Jenkins) stumble into this bizarre love triangle when he was waiting for his boss The Falcon on front of a night club.
User Review - 6/10 by Art SGeorge Sanders is the Falcon, an upper crust society-type who is also a private investigator. He seems to also have a way with the ladies (a la James Bond). However, in this film, a rendering of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, the Falcon is really Philip Marlowe, so there's a bit of dissonance: Marlowe was never so suave. Indeed, Dick Powell's Marlowe in the superior Murder, My Sweet (1944) is far more lived in and grungy. He also gets beat up a fair bit which doesn't happen to the Falcon; instead Sanders has a sidekick played by Allen Jenkins who takes the various beatings from Moose Malloy and also provides comic relief by getting into trouble. This moves the film into the more formulaic territory of the mystery serials (e.g., Charlie Chan, Dick Tracy, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, etc.) which were generally lighter fare. But somehow the Chandler text elevates the picture to something more than the usual "guess the murderer before he/she is identified by the sleuth" mystery - it is a little more confusing, less straightforward, more interesting. George Sanders' star power is more than evident but he's still an odd droll character - who thought he should be the hero? That said, I fully approve of him and the film was fine.
User Review - 6/10 by Allan CJust as good a private detective story as the first two in this series, with Allen Jenkens adding plenty of colour to the film as usual. There's less emphasis on 'The Falcon's' love-life in this one which is the only sub-plot theme that is continuous through all the films.
User Review - 6/10 by Richard Ci enjoy all the falcon films, a time of champayne cocktails, cigarette cases and smudges of red lipstick on hankerchiefs, late night movies.
User Review - 6/10 by Mike MThe innards of the Chandler novel... reordered to showcase Sanders' way with a withering quip - not quite as refined here as in the actor's later vehicles, but still entertaining enough. Script and direction are quite perfunctory - tediously written interrogation sequences fall a long way short of providing the interpersonal chemistry of the great studio stars, and we're never given enough to convince us the journalist love interest might also be a crackshot with a pistol - but there are regular flashes of the genre's pleasures, as though it were intended as a sampler of noir themes and language for audiences put off by the flourishes of a Lang or Nick Ray.
User Review - 6/10 by Lauren HBizarrely enough, this is an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 'Farewell, My Lovely', with a good bit of the plot preserved. Pared down to an hour-long programmer, the film bounces along on the strength of a bevy of good character actors, with George Sanders in the lead. Sanders referred to the Falcon films as the 'nadir of my career', which is probably true. The Falcon is basically the Saint sans the criminal edge. Sanders cares so little about the part that he actually makes it sillier than it might have been, which works out perfectly. Not exactly Philip Marlowe, but not bad at all.
User Review - 6/10 by Katie RNoel Coward meets Raymond Chandler in this daft spin on "Farewell, My Lovely". Gay Lawrence, AKA The Falcon (I'm not making this up) is a foppish English anti-Marlowe, who prances about magnificently, causing every dame to swoon with passion at his every pithy remark. In a modern film the girl would be beating him up and stealing his lunch money. Still, it's enjoyable stuff, and at 60-odd minutes long, whizzes through the source material at light-speed.

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