Derek Winnert

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The Kennel Murder Case **** (1933, William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 11,308

William Powell is perfect in his fourth and last appearance as smooth sleuth Philo Vance, in the excellent 1933 vintage suspense crime thriller film The Kennel Murder Case. This entertaining little gem is 73 blissful […]

Jun, 14

The Falcon in Hollywood *** (1944, Tom Conway, Barbara Hale, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday, Veda Ann Borg, John Abbott, Sheldon Leonard) – Classic Movie Review 3213

In the tenth of 16 movies in the Falcon series, Tom Conway again stars as Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon (aka Tom Lawrence). This time The Falcon investigates an actor’s murder in Hollywood in […]

Jan, 02

The Falcon and the Co-Eds ** (1943, Tom Conway, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday, Amelita Ward, Isabel Jewell, George Givot, Barbara Brown) – Classic Movie Review 3212

Tom Conway stars again as Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon (aka Tom Lawrence) in director William Clemens’s 1943 mystery thriller, in which he this time poses as an insurance investigator and investigates the Co-Eds at […]

Jan, 02

The Falcon in Danger *** (1943, Tom Conway, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard, Amelita Ward) – Classic Movie Review 3211

Tom Conway stars again as Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon (aka Tom Lawrence) in director William Clemens’s 1943 mystery thriller, in which he this time investigates a plane crash that has no victims because […]

Jan, 02

The Gay Falcon **** (1941, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Anne Hunter, Gladys Cooper, Edward Brophy, Turhan Bey, Arthur Shields) – Classic Movie Review 2956

Michael Arlen’s suave, debonair detective The Falcon featured in 16 above-average B-movies in the 1940s. George Sanders played the character in four movies until his brother Tom Conway took over. John Calvert starred in the […]

Oct, 05

The Falcon Takes Over **** (1942, George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Helen Gilbert, Edward Gargan, Ward Bond, Hans Conried, Turhan Bey) – Classic Movie Review 741

George Sanders stars in 1942 in a highspot in Michael Arlen’s débonair detective Falcon series, unexpectedly based on Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, and the first film of the great writer’s classic hardboiled crime thriller […]

Jan, 24

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