The Falcon Takes Over

The Falcon Takes Over (1942)

MYSTERY that you'll laugh at...when -- The Falcon TAKES OVER

One night in New York, beefy escaped convict Moose Malloy hunts 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.

Date of release
1942-05-29
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (32)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Crime, Mystery
Director
Irving Reis
Collection
The Falcon Series

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Farewell, My Lovely

The Falcon Takes Over, 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, with the Falcon substituting for Chandler's archetypal private eye Philip Marlowe and the setting of New York City replacing Marlowe's Los Angeles beat. The B film was the third, following The Gay Falcon and A Date with the Falcon (1941), to star George Sanders as the character Gay Lawrence, a gentleman detective known by the sobriquet the Falcon.

Production

The film, based on Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, was the first adaptation of a Philip Marlowe story, before Time to Kill, released later in the same year. That film, though, did not use Marlowe as the main character, changing the character's name to Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan). RKO had replaced its The Saint series with The Falcon in 1941. Both series starred George Sanders.

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