Falcon Movie Collection - All 16 Movies

Gay Stanhope Falcon (later known in film and radio as The Falcon)
is a fictional character created in 1940 by Michael Arlen. Falcon
made his first appearance in Arlen's short story "Gay Falcon", which
was first published in 1940 in Town & Country magazine. Falcon
is characterized as a freelance adventurer and troubleshooter - a
man who makes his living "keeping his mouth shut and engaging
in dangerous enterprises."

The Falcon was quickly brought to the screen by RKO - 1941's The
Gay Falcon redefined the character as a suave English gentleman-
detective with a weakness for beautiful women. The film was intended
to establish a suitable replacement character for Leslie Charteris' Simon
Templar (aka The Saint, hero of a popular RKO film series). To that end,
George Sanders (star of The Saint series) was cast. Though Gay Falcon
was the character's name in Arlen's original story, for the film series, the
character was renamed Gay Laurence - thus, "The Falcon" became an alias,
or nickname (a la "The Saint"). In later outings, in various media, the
character had a variety of "real names," while still being known as The Falcon.
Neither in films nor on radio was the nickname ever explained.


Film series

Starring George Sanders as Gay Lawrence
The Gay Falcon (1941)
A Date with the Falcon (1942)
The Falcon Takes Over (1942) (based on Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely)

Featuring Sanders and Tom Conway as the Lawrence brothers
The Falcon's Brother (1942)

Starring Tom Conway as Tom Lawrence
The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
The Falcon in Danger (1943)
The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943)
The Falcon Out West (1944)
The Falcon in Mexico (1944)
The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
The Falcon's Alibi (1946)
The Falcon's Adventure (1946)

Starring John Calvert as Michael Waring
Devil's Cargo (1948)
Appointment with Murder (1948)
Search for Danger (1949)
 

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