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1946
Directed by Ray McCarey
Synopsis
"Death for the Falcon" - says the law!
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
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Cast
Tom Conway Rita Corday Vince Barnett Jane Greer Elisha Cook Jr. Emory Parnell Al Bridge Esther Howard Jean Brooks Paul Brooks Jason Robards Sr. Morgan Wallace Lucien Prival
DirectorDirector
Ray McCarey
ProducerProducer
William Berke
WritersWriters
Dane Lussier Manuel Seff Paul Yawitz
Original WriterOriginal Writer
Michael Arlen
EditorEditor
Philip Martin
CinematographyCinematography
Frank Redman
Executive ProducerExec. Producer
Sid Rogell
Camera OperatorCamera Operator
James Daly
Art DirectionArt Direction
Albert S. D'Agostino Lucius O. Croxton
Set DecorationSet Decoration
Darrell Silvera
SongsSongs
Jule Styne Sammy Cahn
SoundSound
Francis M. Sarver Terry Kellum
Studio
RKO Radio Pictures
Country
USA
Language
English
Genres
Adventure Crime Mystery
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Theatrical limited
12 Apr 1946
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Theatrical
22 Apr 1946
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12 Apr 1946
- Theatrical limitedNRNew York City, NewYork
22 Apr 1946
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Review by Brian Saur ★★★½ 9
Elisha Cook Jr. in a great supporting role as a late night radio DJ = this being my favorite of the Falcon films I've seen. Jane Greer is in it too and smokin' hot.
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Review by Joe ★★★
A sometimes convoluted Falcon mystery involving murder and fake pearls but with a good supporting performance from Elisha Cook Jr. as all-night radio DJ Nick Nite-Owl, we get to see Cook do a lot of great jazzy radio patter in addition to his usual nervous breakdown routine, sometimes alternating between the two in the same scene. He and Jane Greer from Out of the Past make this a great Falcon installment for noir fans. An unusual amount of shirtless Tom Conway in this one too, with both a shower and a massage scene for the Falcon.
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Review by hellohildy ★★★
One of the better Conway Falcons, plus Jane Greer, and Elisha Cook Jr gets to go from fun and funky to dark and creepy. Lots of story packed into a tight running time. BONUS: Those ever-present RKO nightclub chairs with the diagonal slat backs once again make an appearance!
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Review by Wood ★★★
Relatively unremarkable mystery serial, but the cast is having fun and makes this a pretty digestible TCM afternoon watch.
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Review by BrianNaas ★★★
It feels like noir central with Jane Greer and Elisha Cook Jr in the same film. And with their characters married to one another - giving all men some hope. He even gets to kiss her. Twice. I would wager that is the only time in a film Cook got to kiss a dame. Maybe the Maltese Falcon but nothing of flesh and blood. And that good looking. The twelfth film in the Falcon series and a good one. Basic stuff but a few surprises thrown our way. Tom Conway as the Falcon is as dashing as usual and his sidekick - this time still called Goldie Locke but played by Vincent Barnett - is as annoying as usual -…
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Review by Robert Koelle ★★★½
The Falcon's alibi is oddly named - he isn't on the run from the law in this film nearly as much as some others, I felt. He isn't omnipresent either. There was a moment near the end of the film when I realized that we hadn't seen him for quite a while, as the movie focused on the other characters, particularly Lola and Nick.
Nick is played by Elisha Cook Jr, the "gunsel" from Maltese Falcon, and many other films. He's secretly married to Lola, who is also seeing the band leader. She has a lovely voice, and I enjoyed the odd first number she sang, about someone who can't quite articulate how they feel. Nick is a night owl…
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Review by e🌸 ★★★
jane greer nightclub numbers >>>
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Review by Lowbacca ★★½
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
While I generally like the Falcon films, this one really managed to get away from the Falcon a bit too much. And so this becomes more about the rest of the characters, and frankly, I mostly don't care about them because it jumps around a bit too much.
This does, at the very end, hone in on Elisha Cook Jr. as Nick, and Nick at least makes for an interesting character. Or perhaps more accurately, Cook really infuses a powerful and yet distant performance into the role (the same sort of thing that makes him so distinctive in House on Haunted Hill, I think), and so that makes this get a bit more engaging. If the movie had shifted over more heavily and earlier to focus on him, then this might have ended up coming out a lot stronger film. Instead it feels more like an interesting possibility but nothing more.
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Review by Nitrate_Diet ★★★½
At the end of Tom Conway’s run as the Falcon, the series had become an interesting balancing act.
On the one hand, it’s got the debonair gentleman sleuth and his trusty comic-relief sidekick, typical of this series from the start, but in keeping with 1946, it also has obsessive men and women committing acts of betrayal, greed, and double crossing each other.
Plus Elisha Cook, Jr., and Jane Greer get tangled up which is, like, RKO noir heaven.
Graded on the B-movie scale.
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Review by T👁️ ★★★½
more like El8sha Cuck Jr amirite?? haha jk he's the best
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Review by smokeandmirrors ★★★
at no point did the law say "death for the falcon". booo!!! the best we get is "20 years up the river, maybe". absolute fools
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Review by PUNQ ★★★
For me The Falcon's Alibi (1946) was the best Tom Conway Falcon entry. So enjoyable, topped by a fine psychopathic performance from Elisha Cook Jr.. Might not be the deepest of mysteries, but the overall presentation made for a entertaining hour.
