Le Faucon en péril (1943)

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Tom Conway

Tom Lawrence…

Jean Brooks

Iris Fairchild

Elaine Shepard

Nancy Palmer

Amelita Ward

Bonnie Caldwell

Cliff Clark

Police Inspetor Timothy Donovan

Edward Gargan

Detective Bates
(as Ed Gargan)

Clarence Kolb

Stanley Harris Palmer - Industrialist

Felix Basch

Morley

Richard Davies

Kenneth Gibson

Richard Martin

George Morley

Erford Gage

Evan Morley

Eddie Dunn

Det. Grimes

Robert Andersen

Airport Steward
(uncredited)

Hooper Atchley

Dr. Olivier - Falcon's Doctor
(uncredited)

Bobby Barber

Waiter
(uncredited)

Joan Barclay

Hysterical Girl
(uncredited)

Lulu Mae Bohrman

Casino Patron
(uncredited)

Eddie Borden

Joe - Welder
(uncredited)

Director
- William Clemens
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Trivia
The sixth of sixteen movies with the suave detective nicknamed "The Falcon", and the third of ten starring Tom Conway.

Goofs
At the start of the film when the airliner is shown crashing the model is of a conventional small twin-engined airliner. In the live action shots after the crash it has the unusual twin horizontal tail structures supported by several vertical surfaces of the Capelis XC-12, also used in Five Came Back (1939).

Quotes
Stanley Harris Palmer: [after being handed a parachute] How do I get into it?
offscreen hijacker: You oughta know. You make 'em for the government.

Connections
Followed by Le Faucon à l'université (1943)

Tom Conway, playing the Saint knock-off his real life brother George Sanders abandoned to him, is actually in danger: of getting married. He aso has a fine little mystery to solve, when a plane sets down at the airport with no one aboard.

RKO actually paid for some good writing for Conway's series; this one is credited to Craig Rice and Fred Niblo Jr. RKO stocked it liberally with starlets, and there's the always watchable Clarence Kolb around as an 'industrialist' near the center of the story. Another Falcon movie was the first to use a Raymond Chandler story as its plot basis. The results were pretty good mysteries and some nice cheesecake. This one lives up to that undemanding standard for a second feature.