This film, the eleventh in the sixteen film Falcon detective series, stars Tom Conway as the Falcon once again, with a wonderful supporting cast headed by the beautiful Rita Corday, the comical Edward Brophy, the adorable Sharyn Moffett, and femme fatale Fay Helm. Tie the cast with a winning storyline, and you've got a great Falcon film, and in my opinion, one of the best!
The plot revolves around a silk-smuggling ring in San Francisco that the Falcon learns about because of a little girl, (played by Sharyn Moffett) after her nurse was murdered on the same train they were on. After the killing, the Falcon and Goldie Locke decide to escort the girl back to her home, but after another murder occurs, he becomes enticed to the case and begins to solve the mystery.
Tom Conway is great as the Falcon, as usual, with his calm and suave demeanor, and Sharyn Moffett, I must say, is one of the best child actresses of the day. If you checked out some of her other films, such as "Child of Divorce" and "Banjo," I'm sure you'd agree with me. She's as cute as a button, too :)
Rita Corday is in this one too, and it's her FIFTH entry out of six in the Falcon series at RKO, but this was the first one in which she received billing after Conway. In the other Falcon movies she appeared in, such as "The Falcon and the Co-Ed's" and "The Falcon in Hollywood" she has pretty small parts and lower billing than some of the others, but she really shines in this role playing Sharyn Moffett's older sister, Joan. She's incredibly beautiful, too, and I'm not sure how many other people agree with this, but I LOVE her Swiss accent. Both of her parents were Swiss and she studied in places like Paris and Shanghai before coming to Hollywood with her mother in the early 1940's and signing a contract with RKO. So, that explains the accent, which in my opinion, is just wonderful. I can't explain why I'm so attracted to it, but I just am :)
As for the rest of the cast, they play their roles well, especially Fay Helm, as the bad girl who's involved in the silk smuggling, and the climax is one of the best in the series (a boat explosion).
All in all, a WONDERFUL entry to the Falcon film series, and it was great to see Rita Corday once again :)
The plot revolves around a silk-smuggling ring in San Francisco that the Falcon learns about because of a little girl, (played by Sharyn Moffett) after her nurse was murdered on the same train they were on. After the killing, the Falcon and Goldie Locke decide to escort the girl back to her home, but after another murder occurs, he becomes enticed to the case and begins to solve the mystery.
Tom Conway is great as the Falcon, as usual, with his calm and suave demeanor, and Sharyn Moffett, I must say, is one of the best child actresses of the day. If you checked out some of her other films, such as "Child of Divorce" and "Banjo," I'm sure you'd agree with me. She's as cute as a button, too :)
Rita Corday is in this one too, and it's her FIFTH entry out of six in the Falcon series at RKO, but this was the first one in which she received billing after Conway. In the other Falcon movies she appeared in, such as "The Falcon and the Co-Ed's" and "The Falcon in Hollywood" she has pretty small parts and lower billing than some of the others, but she really shines in this role playing Sharyn Moffett's older sister, Joan. She's incredibly beautiful, too, and I'm not sure how many other people agree with this, but I LOVE her Swiss accent. Both of her parents were Swiss and she studied in places like Paris and Shanghai before coming to Hollywood with her mother in the early 1940's and signing a contract with RKO. So, that explains the accent, which in my opinion, is just wonderful. I can't explain why I'm so attracted to it, but I just am :)
As for the rest of the cast, they play their roles well, especially Fay Helm, as the bad girl who's involved in the silk smuggling, and the climax is one of the best in the series (a boat explosion).
All in all, a WONDERFUL entry to the Falcon film series, and it was great to see Rita Corday once again :)