Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe Falcon rescues Louisa Braganza from kidnappers who want her father's secret formula for making diamonds. Her father's murder is pinned on the Falcon and, when he and she flee to Florida,... Tout lireThe Falcon rescues Louisa Braganza from kidnappers who want her father's secret formula for making diamonds. Her father's murder is pinned on the Falcon and, when he and she flee to Florida, another murder seems to confirm his guilt.The Falcon rescues Louisa Braganza from kidnappers who want her father's secret formula for making diamonds. Her father's murder is pinned on the Falcon and, when he and she flee to Florida, another murder seems to confirm his guilt.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Goldie Locke
- (as Edward S. Brophy)
- Lt. R. Evans
- (as Jason Robards)
- Patio Club Patron
- (non crédité)
- Hat Check Girl
- (non crédité)
- Doorman
- (non crédité)
- Enrico Braganza
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- Headwaiter
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In this one, the MacGuffin is the formula for industrial diamonds which I am pretty sure was used before. The Falcon (Tom Conway) saves a kidnapped woman and winds up being framed for the murder of her uncle, who owns the formula and is trying to get it to someone in Miami that has arranged for backers.
Some clever moments, one regarding a blonde the Falcon saves from someone harassing her on the train.
Tom Conway does a good job - it was his last foray as the Falcon. He's charming, but this wasn't very exciting.
Of interest, pretty Madge Meredith's career was derailed a bit when she was sentenced to five years in prison on an assault charge - it turned out that in fact she had been framed and was released. She worked into the '60s.
(In passing—too bad leading lady Meredith got mixed up in a bogus criminal conviction the year after this movie that knocked a big hole in her career. Judging from her work here, she had the looks and ability of an A-grade leading lady.)
It was the last of the Falcon movies leaving Dick Tracy as the only celluloid sleuth from RKO studios
In the final of the thirteen Falcon movies, Tom Lawrence gets mixed up in a murderous plot to get hold of a formula for manufacturing diamonds. Putting the Falcon on the other side of the law and pursued by them adds an element of tension to the film and injects a bit of pace into the mixed plot. With the film series coming to an end I had worried that it would just collapse hence them making no more films, but in reality this film is of the generally reasonable standard of the rest of the films. The plot is a bit contrived at the start but once you get into it, it is pretty engaging and quite fun with mystery and some nice action (albeit rather old fashioned stiff punches etc). The conclusion is rather unsatisfying though and I didn't think it did the plot justice by seeming to end rather abruptly and without really being a meaty end to the story. Of course it is an even more annoying end to the film series, featuring as it does as rather wet joke from Goldie and a chuckle from the cast not the way an enjoyable series should have bowed out.
The cast are mixed but Conway is very good and by this stage my memory of his brother had pretty much gone to the point that I now think of Conway when I think of the Falcon character. Brophy's returns in the revolving role of comedy sidekick despite the fact that he had already been in the series as a detective in The Gay Falcon. He is OK but you do feel that all the actors in that role are just doing an impersonation none of them, particularly Brophy, ever really made the role their own or did anything new with it. Meredith is OK and is better than the simmering love interest that have been used during parts of the series. The bad guys don't make enough of an impression partly causing a weak ending to the story. Jason Robards Sr makes an appearance as the police detective and is good with straight support.
Overall this is mostly a good film and the main body of it is quite engaging and fun. However the start feels a bit forced (convenient) and the ending is a rather weak end to both the film and the series. The cast are mixed but Lawrence is strong and the film is worth seeing and will please fans of the series even if you can't help wishing that it had gone out on more of a high than a plateau.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesShortly after this film was released, its leading lady Madge Meredith was convicted on a kidnapping charge and sentenced to prison, insisting all along that she was innocent. After spending several years behind bars, she was found to have been falsely convicted, and was personally pardoned by the governor of California. Following her release, she returned to private life, and lived quietly until 2017.
- GaffesThe cars of the express train on which The Falcon and Goldie are traveling are obviously studio mock-ups as they show no train movement whatsoever with passengers and staff having no trouble standing or walking in the corridors.
- Citations
Goldie Locke: Beautiful Miami! We start out lookin' for fish and end up looking at oranges.
- ConnexionsFollowed by Devil's Cargo (1948)
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- The Falcon's Adventure
- Lieux de tournage
- Société de production
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- Durée1 heure 1 minute
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1