The Falcon In San Francisco (1945)

• Director
  • Joseph H. Lewis
• Writers
  • Robert E. Kent(screenplay)
  • Ben Markson(screenplay)
  • Michael Arlen(based on the character created by)
• Stars
  • Tom Conway
  • Rita Corday
  • Edward Brophy

  Filmed extensively on location, The Falcon in San Francisco is one of the best of RKO Radio's "Falcon" series. This time around, amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, comes to the aid of 10-year-old Annie Marshall (Sharyn Moffet). While trying to solve the murder of Annie's nurse, Lawrence is accused of kidnapping the kid. Several beatings, warnings and murders later, Lawrence discovers that the solution of the mystery is tied in with a gang of silk smugglers, headed by none other than?.Oh, no! The surprise ending isn't going to be tipped off here! Director Joseph H. Lewis' occasional utilization of "cinema verite" techniques would later develop full-blown into such noir classics as Gun Crazy.