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RKO Radio Pictures
The Falcon Series
MURDER IN THE STRATOSPHERE!
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.
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Dec 1, 2023 · via TMDB
When a passenger plane crash lands at a small airport, the emergency services are puzzled by the rather Marie Celeste scenario they discover. Where have the people gone? More importantly - where have $100,000 gone too? "Iris" (Jean Brooks) is the daughter of one of the missing men and she determines to engage the services of the "Falcon" (Tom Conway) to get to the bottom of this mystery. Before he can sink his teeth into the investigation though, her father reappears - all on his own - with a rather fantastic tale of mid-air hijackings and anti-government conspiracies. Is he telling the truth or is he implicated in some nefarious plot, too? It's standard wartime fayre, this - a slightly far-fetched plot that at least gets the imagination going to compensate for some rather join-the-dots acting and writing. The denouement is a wee bit different and though I still think it's a shame George Sanders didn't stay with this franchise, Conway does enough to keep it watchable and just a little intriguing.
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Tom Conway
Tom Lawrence / The Falcon
Jean Brooks
Iris Fairchild
Elaine Shepard
Nancy Palmer
Amelita Ward
Bonnie Caldwell
Cliff Clark
Insp. Timothy Donovan
Edward Gargan
Det. Bates
Clarence Kolb
Stanley Harris Palmer
Felix Basch
Morley
Richard Davies
Kenneth Gibson
Richard Martin
George Morley
Erford Gage
Evan Morley
Eddie Dunn
Det. Grimes
Ian Wolfe
Thomas, the butler (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
Wally Fairchild (uncredited)
Charles Trowbridge
Palmer's Doctor (uncredited)
Rosemary La Planche
Nurse (uncredited)
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Renié
Costume Design
William Clemens
Director
C. Bakaleinikoff
Music Director
Roy Webb
Original Music Composer
Craig Rice
Screenplay
The Last Barricade
Search for Danger
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
The Falcon's Adventure
A Date with the Falcon
The Falcon's Brother
The Gay Falcon
The Falcon Takes Over
The Falcon in Hollywood
The Falcon in San Francisco
Die Füchsin - Rachespiel
Devil's Cargo
Appointment with Murder
The Falcon Strikes Back
The Falcon Out West
The Falcon's Alibi
Lusty Wife: Temptation of Flesh
Beginning of the Path
Danger in Blue 2
Swish.
Murder She Said
Murder Most Foul
Another Thin Man
Murder Ahoy
400 Bullets
Shadow of the Thin Man
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery
The Interview
The Glass Key
The Night Strangler
The Blue Gardenia
The Verdict
Man from Reno
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Maniac
Big Trouble
Lady in the Lake
Murder!
Murder in Three Acts
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