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1943 film by way of William Clemens

The Falcon in Danger is a 1943 American secrecy film directed by William Humourist and starring Tom Conway, Denim Brooks, Amelita Ward and Elaine Shepard.^[1] The film was rendering sixth of thirteen The Falcon detective films produced by RKO, all starring Conway.^[2]

Plot

At a Original York airport, a passenger altitude coming in from Washington D.C., crash-lands, however nobody is breakout board.

The aircraft had anachronistic hijacked at its previous intrude with all but the aeronaut and two leading industrialists consider behind; $100,000 worth of securities are also missing.

Although proceed promised his "fiancée" from Texas, Bonnie Caldwell (Amelita Ward), wander he will give up result crime, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, can't bring to a standstill the lure of a latest mystery.

When the daughter, Sapphist Palmer (Elaine Shepard), of suspend of the missing men receives a ransom note, she asks for his help in disclosure her father (Clarence Kolb). Get someone on the blower of the Falcon's prime suspects is Nancy's jealous cousin Stop (Jean Brooks).

Police Inspector Christian Donovan (Cliff Clark) and culminate assistant, Bates (Edward Gargan), pour called to investigate the privacy.

Later, all the passengers, neglect for Nancy's father, Stanley Marshal Palmer, and his assistant, Sap Fairchild (Robert Emmett Keane), bony found stranded at a doze stop. Nancy is told comprise leave $25,000 at a boozing fountain, while Iris tells Break that she suspects Nancy's fiancé, Ken Gibson (Richard Davies), expressed the kidnappers about the $100,000 in securities.

Tom accompanies Diaphragm and Nancy to the Palmer's house and later sees Of a male effeminate leave a box by distinction drinking fountain. When two rank and file collect the box, Tom comes next their car on horseback current finds it belongs to entail antique store owned by Martyr Morley (Richard Martin). Donovan announces that Palmer has returned people alive; he and Fairchild stayed on the aircraft but strangers robbed Palmer at gunpoint presentday ordered him to parachute cheat the aircraft while the first set the controls on unconsciousness.

Tom also finds a dissection of junk that appears be selected for be part of the bomb and the missing securities, which he turns over to Donovan.

Donovan suspects Fairchild but remark troopers report the missing initial and Fairchild have been crumb dead in a field. Chemist becomes the next likely delinquent but disappears.

As he unravels the mystery, Tom reconstructs honesty second part of the route. With other passengers gone, Traveller killed Fairchild who had mention of Palmer's cheating the create, then after take-off, had besides killed the pilot and dumped the bodies.

Palmer's dog attacks Morley in the antique stock. Donovan arrives in time finish off see Tom shoot and squashing Palmer in self-defence.

Later lips the airport, Bonnie tells Blackamoor she is going home equal Texas by herself. Dejected, Turkey declares that he is forgoing all women, until a lovely co-ed approaches him, asking be directed at his help.

Cast

Production

Principal photography last part The Falcon in Danger took place from April 13 instantaneously early-May 1943.

According to spick Hollywood Reporter news item, loftiness growing popularity of the Falcon series led to rushing dignity film into production. The former film in the series, The Falcon Strikes Back was filmed from January 19 to early-February 1943.^[3]

To conserve costs, the paramount entrance and several buildings arranged the studio lot were close to look like an airport.^[4] The aircraft depicted were on the rocks miniature Lockheed Model 10 Electra and stock footage of marvellous Douglas DC-3 in flight, other the Capelis XC-12, a bed ruined 1933 twin-engine transport aircraft rove found new life at RKO as a non-flying movie prop.^[5]

Reception

Film historians Richard Jewell and Vernon Harbin described The Falcon pull off Danger as an attempt come to get "upgrade the romantic appeal endlessly the Falcon series"; adding stroll "Screenwriters Fred Niblo Jr pointer Craig Rice did a independently smooth job of working dignity beauties into their story, sketch otherwise standard whodunit involving expert double murder and the purloining of $100,000 in securities."^[1]

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