The film opens with Moose Malloy (Ward Bond) lurking outside Club 13. He is on the trail of his ex-girlfriend Velma. He kills the Club 13 manager who Moose suspects has taken up with Velma. Moose has broken free from prison where he's doing 20 years for a manslaughter rap. Ex-wrestler Moose has the ability to kill any of his victims by shaking them to death once he has hold of their neck.
George Sanders plays the Falcon who takes on the case of finding Velma before Moose can get to her. He traces the address of Jessie Florian (Anne Revere) who he suspects is protecting somebody and who might know where Velma is hiding. The Falcon is a smoothie with the ladies. We see him stop a woman screaming by giving her a smothering full-on kiss.
There is a good atmospheric scene where the Falcon walks into a misty churchyard and is seemingly shot in the back. Inexplicably roaming about the churchyard at night is a wannabe newspaper reporter (Lynn Bari) who pulls a gun on the Falcon after he lifts himself up from the ground quite alive. She drives a backfiring car which comes to the rescue of the Falcon later on. This is a somewhat comedic take on a Noir pulp story before it got the full Noir treatment in 'Murder My Sweet' (1944). It is surprising to see that only five of the players in this Falcon mystery received onscreen credits with Ward Bond especially and also Anne Revere sorely missing out on their contributions getting credited.
George Sanders plays the Falcon who takes on the case of finding Velma before Moose can get to her. He traces the address of Jessie Florian (Anne Revere) who he suspects is protecting somebody and who might know where Velma is hiding. The Falcon is a smoothie with the ladies. We see him stop a woman screaming by giving her a smothering full-on kiss.
There is a good atmospheric scene where the Falcon walks into a misty churchyard and is seemingly shot in the back. Inexplicably roaming about the churchyard at night is a wannabe newspaper reporter (Lynn Bari) who pulls a gun on the Falcon after he lifts himself up from the ground quite alive. She drives a backfiring car which comes to the rescue of the Falcon later on. This is a somewhat comedic take on a Noir pulp story before it got the full Noir treatment in 'Murder My Sweet' (1944). It is surprising to see that only five of the players in this Falcon mystery received onscreen credits with Ward Bond especially and also Anne Revere sorely missing out on their contributions getting credited.