The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)

FICTION'S SLICKEST SCOUNDREL IN HIS LATEST ADVENTURE!

Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.

Date of release
1940-11-02
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Director
Sidney Salkow
Collection
Lone Wolf Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date is a 1940 American mystery crime film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Warren William, Frances Robinson, Bruce Bennett and Eric Blore. It is the sixth Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures. It features William in his fourth appearance as the title character and Edward Gargan, Lester Matthews and Don Beddoe as the film's antagonists. The screenplay was written by Salkow and Earl Felton.

Production

The Lone Wolf title character is played by Warren William, his fourth time doing so. Although Walter Baldwin is listed in studio documents as playing a night watchman in the film, he did not actually appear in it.

Sidney Salkow directed the film for Columbia Pictures, while Salkow and Earl Felton cowrote the screenplay based on the detective character created by Louis Joseph Vance in a series of eight novels published between 1914 and 1934. Barney McGill was the film's as cinematographer, Morris Stoloff headed the musical direction and Richard Fantl edited the film. Principal photography began on August 21, 1940, and ended in mid-September 1940.

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