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Moments later, a shot rings out, and she is dead. He reveals that she, her husband Weber and Retana were responsible for the thefts. The brother who stepped in as the Falcon's replacement was portrayed by Sanders's actual older brother, Tom Conway. All in all not Kane, but well worth watching again and again as I have done!

The copies I have of the series were off UK TV in 1987, most were '50's TV dupes and these would have needed TLC even then to eliminate some frame wobble and jumpy scratches etc.

Allen Jenkins is a natural and in good contrast to the suave Sanders as the Falcon's assistant. However, Weber is shot, and once again Goldie is found by the police near a dead body.

By this point, Gay suspects Gardner arranged to have her diamond “stolen” so she could collect on the insurance. Meanwhile he has both an angry fiancée on his hands and the society lady's swooning secretary, who loves the adventure of tracking down criminals alongside the Falcon.

This is a very good entry that has a very interesting supporting cast.

But there's plenty of enjoyable moments in the 63 minutes - Sanders previously intrigued by an undertaker giggling at a comic paper is a few scenes later briefly studying one for himself - an aspect of ordinary life that he hadn't investigated before perhaps? What a pleasant problem for him when they immediately turned mega jealous of any other woman who showed up, no matter how innocent!

It's the usual murky murder mystery, but the Falcon (as private sleuth) isn't fooled for long - fortunately he knew something the viewers didn't, which led him and the police to the culprits.

One scene I always enjoy is that of Turhan Bey's strangely atmospheric apartment being searched by Sanders and Barrie in the dark. Retana enters through her bedroom window, but when he lunges at her, Gay and Waldeck charge in. In the Falcon movies, as in the Leslie Charteris "Saint" novels of the period, the hero is almost always accompanied in his travels by a wisecracking sidekick, portrayed variously by Allen Jenkins (in the first three Falcon films), Don Barclay, Cliff Edwards, Edward Brophy, and Vince Barnett.

The new Falcon films followed the "Saint" pattern so closely that author Charteris sued RKO, charging unfair competition.

The police confirm it is the murder weapon.

Meanwhile, Gay calls Elinor to warn her to stay away from the killer, but she believes he is lying out of jealousy and tells Retana so. At the party, Elinor becomes annoyed when she realises why Gay changed his mind about attending and retaliates by dancing with Manuel Retana Turhan Bey.

In frustration, she grabs the flower from Retana’s lapel and flings it at Gay. He calmly picks it up and attaches it to his lapel. Edward Brophy is cut from the same cloth as Jenkins and is good as a police detective. I hope they have been saved from further decomposition since because all the Sanders/Conway outings are a pleasant watch.

The Gay Falcon

Gay Laurence, George Sanders, a ladies’ man and amateur crime solver known as the Gay Falcon, reluctantly agrees to give up both habits to mollify his fiancée, Elinor Benford Nina Vale.

Charteris told author David Zinman in 1971, "RKO switched to The Falcon, a flagrant carbon copy of their version of The Saint, in my opinion with the single mercenary motive of saving the payments they had to make to me for the film rights." Charteris actually pokes fun at The Falcon in his 1943 novel The Saint Steps In, with a character making a metafictional reference to the Falcon being "a bargain-basement imitation" of The Saint.)

George Sanders appeared in the first four Falcon features.

Quite frankly, having watched I can't guess what comes next - whether Gay Lawrence (the Falcon) stays with his fiancée and an impending marriage that never quite comes off becomes some kind of running joke like John Howard's Bulldog Drummond of the late 30's, or if Wendy Barrie's character Helen Reed becomes the Falcon's new girl, or if the Falcon has no girl or another girl entirely in the coming entries, but the ending had me wanting to see the next one.

Of course the wit and wisdom of George Sanders is a plus in any film, and as The Falcon it is unclear what his background is in this entry.

Plots, characters and pacing is often so similar that they don't seem to stand out. The flower was a signal, indicating to whom Gardner was to give the jewel. Gay persuades Inspector Mike Waldeck Arthur Shields to release Goldie so he can flush out the real murderer.

the gay falcon movie

However, he was referred to as "Watling" and the credits still claimed he was based on a character created by Michael Arlen. The 1941 film The Gay Falcon redefined the character as a suave English gentleman detective with a weakness for beautiful women. Worse, Goldy is held as a material witness to the crime, so now the Falcon is involved and must solve the crimes.

The story opens with the words "Now of this man who called himself Gay Falcon many tales are told, and this is one of them." Arlen's Falcon is characterized as a freelance adventurer and troubleshooter – a man who makes his living "keeping his mouth shut and engaging in dangerous enterprises."

Arlen's Falcon was quickly brought to the screen by RKO Radio Pictures.

Then he and Helen go to see Maxine, leaving Goldie in the car.