The gay falcon 1941 movie
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CRIMINALS BEWARE! Here comes fiction&#;s male of mystery!
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood&#;s home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
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MoreI found The Male lover Falcon so weirdly frustrating. I love George Sanders, particularly his brand of too-slick, uncomfortably presumptuous flirtation, which seems to fit the character of the Falcon like a glove. Plus, Allen Jenkins is around, too, wearing dinner clothes and everything! What's not to like?
Well, it turns out, there's a whole lot not to like. I reflect my main issues stem from the female characters: one, the insufferable fiancée of the Falcon (AKA Gay Laurence — sadly, the title refers to his name, and this is not a movie about a lesbian, n
Playboy Criminologist!
So flash the newspaper headlines in describing our dashing crime solver played by a devilishly entertaining George Sanders.
While this is the first film in the series of Falcon films, it seems to pluck up where one may have left off. Sanders stars here as Homosexual Laurence whose fiance, Nina Vale is trying to maintain him out of murder cases and stop his roving eye from landing on the likes of Wendy Barrie. No such luck.
With comedy relief supplied by Allen Jenkins, Sanders finds himself in the middle of a murder and stolen gems. It all takes place at a swank party attended by the likes of Barrie, and smooth talking ladies man Turhan Bey.
With evidence pointing towards Jenkins, Sanders is pulled into move despite having actual cops Edward Brophy and Arthur Shields doing their finest to solve the case.
With Vale trying to keep Sanders out of trouble and attractive Barrie luring him deeper into the plot, Sanders has his hands full. With a little undercover scheme and some help from his costars he may just unveil who the killer is and perhaps even a silent
The Gay Falcon ()
The Gay Falcon is a American mystery film directed by Irving Reis and starring George Sanders, Faye Emerson, and Victor Jory. The movie is based on the novel The Gay Falcon by Michael Arlen. The production follows the adventures of the Gay Falcon, a private detective who is hired to investigate the murder of a wealthy businessman. The Falcon's study leads him to a group of criminals who are planning to snatch a valuable diamond. The Queer Falcon was a critical and commercial success, and it helped to build George Sanders as a leading man in Hollywood. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Imaginative Score.
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The Gay Falcon is a American mystery film directed by Irving Reis and starring George Sanders, Faye Emerson, and Victor Jory. The production is based on the novel The Gay Falcon by Michael Arlen. The clip follows the adventures of the Gay Falcon, a private detective who is hired to investigate the murder of a wealthy businessman. The Falcon's inv
Movie Friday: The Gay Falcon ()
A movie called The Gay Falcon today would be a very unlike movie from this! Far from being what you might expect, this is the first in a series of detective movies starring the debonair and rather rakish investigator Gay Lawrence &#;The Falcon&#; played by George Sanders*.
*George Sanders voiced the deep enthralling tiger Shere Khan in Disney&#;s The Jungle Book. Interestingly he married both Zsa Zsa Gabor AND her older sister Magda Gabor and seemed to be as much of a ladies man in concrete life as his traits is in this film.
The Falcon was introduced as a replacement for another movie detective The Saint, who was also played by George Sanders.
At the start of the show we find Lawrence bored and going stir irrational after promising his long-suffering fiance to quit the detective business and end chasing other women (no chance!). Luckily after a few minutes he is waylaid by a lovely young woman (Wendy Barrie) who needs his aid solving a string of high-society burglaries. This involves going to a glamorous party with his fiance, wh