Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

shakspryn Tom Conway is excellent--wry and witty. Jane Randolph makes her second and final appearance as a feisty reporter with a yen for the Falcon. She is very lovely, I wish she had appeared in more of the films! Rita Corday, also very attractive, makes the first of her five appearances in a Falcon film. And Harriet Nelson, of Ozzie and Harriet fame, has some sizzle as a suspicious hotel manager. Harriet, who knew? She's quite sexy here! In common with all the 1930's and 1940's series movies of this type, the police are portrayed very broadly for comedy. The two police officers here ham it up to a degree that will perhaps surprise any viewer who has not seen many of these old films. But they are no broader than Inspector Lestrade in the Universal Sherlock Holmes films. Or, though he is not a policeman, Birmingham Brown in the Monogram Chan films. The period costumes are good, especially on the ladies, and there are a couple of great old cars shown--the Falcon drives a stunning white convertible! Conway carries the movie smoothly and well. He's pleasure to watch--both shrewd and fun. The hotel desk clerk is a very familiar face from old films and old TV shows. The print on the dvd is quite good. Not as crystal clear as on the Fox Chan films, or the Universal Holmes ones, but still pretty good. There are some good exterior sets, especially at the country hotel. Recommended.

bkoganbing Now that George Sanders had been killed off his real and reel life brother Tom Conway has taken over the title The Falcon, he's even retained the retainer Goldie Locke, in this film played by Cliff Edwards.In this film Conway with the reputation of the Falcon preceding him Conway is neatly framed for the theft of war bonds. A crime that would arouse the anger of the public, but one that really couldn't be fruitful unless you waited till the war was over and then some for the bonds to mature. Remember this film made during World War II.The big surprise here is the dramatic performance of comedian Edgar Kennedy famous for his slow burn routine in feature films and a large number of two reel shorts. He plays a puppeteer with a traveling show and no laughs for Kennedy in The Falcon Takes Over.Fans of the series should be pleased.

dougdoepke That Harriet Nelson (aka Hilliard) could even be suspected of murder seems sacrilegious. What would Ozzie Nelson say or David and Rickey. After all, her sweet tempered, sensible mother was one of the iconic moms of the 1950's (1). Oh well, she does show an edgier side here as the hotel manager. All in all, results look like she was a fine actress whose all-around talent was seldom tapped. The movie itself is a fairly routine Falcon. Seems a war bond scam is going on at the hotel, but who's behind it and how does it tie in with a series of murders. Leave it to the Falcon to sort out, along with his humorously dim-witted sidekick, Goldie (Edwards). There's plenty of eye candy for the guys. And since this is in the middle of the big war (1943), I expect the girl- heavy cast was for the guys in uniform. In fact, Erford Gage (Rickey) was killed in action near war's end. Note too that the director is Ed Dmytryck who went on to direct such noir classics as Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Crossfire (1947). Catch some of that style in the shadowy lighting and odd camera angle.Anyway, the plot's pretty convoluted, but that's not the main draw, for me at least. Instead, it's the suave Conway, snappy throwaway lines, and, of course, the comely girls, which makes this latter a special treat.(1) The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, (1952-1966)

Captain_Woodrow_Call After doing some internet searching it appears that the Falcon series has not been put on DVDs. Does anyone know if there is a reasonable chance that that will happen? My son and I recently recorded three of The Falcon movies off of a satellite channel and enjoyed all three. I'd sure buy a DVD set of the series if it were available.The three films we saw were The Falcon's Brother, The Falcon and the Co-Eds and The Falcon Strikes Back. That is probably the order in which we would rank the three films, but for us they are pretty close. I read a comment that the earlier George Sanders films had a more film noir atmosphere, in which case we'd definitely like to see those.Thanks,