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The Gay Falcon is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irving Reis released in USA on 24 october 1941 with George Sanders
The Gay Falcon (1941)
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Add to a movie listThe Gay Falcon is the first in a series of films about a suave detective nicknamed The Falcon. The 1941 B film was intended by RKO Radio Pictures to introduce a replacement for The Saint, after RKO decided that renewing the film rights to the latter character would be too expensive. George Sanders was cast in the title role; he had played The Saint in the prior RKO series. He was teamed again with Wendy Barrie who had been with him in three previous Saint films.
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Ladies' man and amateur crime solver Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), the "Gay Falcon", reluctantly agrees to give up both habits to mollify his fiancée, Elinor Benford (Nina Vale). He and his uncouth sidekick, Jonathan "Goldie" Locke (Allen Jenkins), become unenthusiastic stockbrokers. When Elinor asks him to attend a party given by Maxine Wood (Gladys Cooper) to mingle with potential clients, he refuses to go to that much trouble.Actors
George Sanders
(Gay Laurence / The Falcon)
Wendy Barrie
(Helen Reed)
Allen Jenkins
(Jonathan G. 'Goldie' Locke)
Gladys Cooper
(Maxine Wood)
Edward Brophy
(Detective Bates)
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