The Falcon Takes Over
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| Directed by | Irving Reis |
| Produced by | Howard Benedict (producer) J. R. McDonough (executive producer) |
| Written by | Raymond Chandler Characters: Michael Arlen |
| Screenplay by | Lynn Root Frank Fenton |
| Based on | Novel |
| Starring | George Sanders Lynn Bari James Gleason |
| Music by | Constantin Bakaleinikoff (musical director, composer) Roy Webb (original music) |
| Cinematography | George Robinson |
| Edited by | Harry Marker |
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures (theatrical) |
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Release dates
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May 29, 1942 |
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Running time
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65 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Falcon Takes Over, also known as The Falcon Steps Out, is a 1942 black-and-white mystery film directed by Irving Reis. The 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.
Though the film featured the Falcon and other characters created by Michael Arlen, its plot was taken from the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, My Lovely,[1] with the Falcon substituted for Chandler's archetypal private eye Philip Marlowe and the setting of New York replacing Marlowe's Los Angeles beat.[2][3] The film was the second adaptation of a Marlowe story, after Time to Kill, released earlier in the same year. That film, also, did not use Marlowe as the main character, changing the name to Michael Shayne.
Critic Louis Black, in a 1999 article for The Austin Chronicle, wrote that the film "had none of the atmosphere of Chandler's book" and recommended instead the later adaptation, Murder, My Sweet (1944).[3]
Plot summary
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Cast
- George Sanders as Gay Lawrence aka The Falcon, an amateur detective
- Lynn Bari as Ann Riordan, a reporter
- James Gleason as Inspector Mike O'Hara, head of the homicide squad[5]
- Allen Jenkins as Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke, Lawrence's assistant
- Helen Gilbert as Diana Kenyon, a lady friend of Marriot
- Ward Bond as Moose Malloy, an escaped convict
- Edward Gargan as Bates
- Anne Revere as Jessie Florian, murder suspect
- George Cleveland as Jerry
- Harry Shannon as Grimes
- Hans Conried as Lindsey Marriot, a dandyish socialite
- Turhan Bey as Jules Amthor
- Charlie Hall as Swan Club Waiter Louie
- Selmar Jackson as Laird Burnett
- Mickey Simpson as Bartender
Footnotes
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- The Falcon Takes Over at AllMovie
- The Falcon Takes Over at the TCM Movie Database
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- American crime thriller films
- American films
- American mystery films
- Black-and-white films
- Detective films
- Films based on American novels
- Films set in New York City
- RKO Pictures films
- Films directed by Irving Reis
- Films based on works by Raymond Chandler
