The Falcon in San Francisco

The Falcon in San Francisco

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The Falcon in San Francisco

1945 Directed by Joseph H. Lewis

The lure of loveliness and the greed for gold lead four to fearful death...as the Falcon grapples with his most merciless foe!

While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.

Tom Conway Rita Corday Edward Brophy Sharyn Moffett Fay Helm Robert Armstrong Carl Kent George Holmes John Mylong Esther Howard Dorothy Adams Jean Brooks

RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

66 mins More details at IMDb / TMDb

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Review by Brent Paton ★★½

A little better than average entry in the Falcon series thanks to good mix of action and humor.
Review by Rick Burin ★★½

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

This was the eighth of Tom Conway’s 10 outings as the eponymous crime-solver and adventurer, a role he took over from his real-life brother, George Sanders, in 1942. The series is notable for that trivia point, and as a breeding and dumping ground for studio RKO. The Falcon in Mexico is said to contain footage shot by Orson Welles for his never-completed film It’s All True. Music that features prominently in Falcon films turns up in other RKO pictures: San Francisco uses 'My Shining Hour' from the Fred Astaire musical The Sky's the Limit as background music, while the sumptuous theme for the classic noir Out of the Past was featured as an on-screen nightclub number in The Falcon Takes…