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CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

JohnHowardReid Executive producer: Sid Rogell. Copyright 20 July 1945 by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. New York opening at the Rialto: 20 July 1945. U.S. release: August 1945. U.K. release: 6 January 1947. Australian release: 10 January 1946. 6,050 feet. 67 minutes.SYNOPSIS: An impossibly complicated plot starts off when the Falcon befriends a young girl on the train to San Francisco. She claims she is being held prisoner.NOTES: Number eleven in the sixteen-picture Falcon series. COMMENT: Disappointing. True, director Joseph H. Lewis does what he can with some long, fluid takes, some through-the-bars shots and the availability of some fine standing sets. But he's ultimately defeated by the confused and confusing, not-worth-the-effort but incredibly complex plot. Edward S. Brophy's Goldy is not much help either. Whilst he does have a few amusing moments (particularly a run-in with Dorothy Adams' put-down widow), mostly he's a pain. Conway sails through his role in his usual suave but increasingly detached manner, but Rita Corday makes a most attractive heroine, and Sharyn Moffett is quite tolerable as the young girl. The other players, with the exception of Faye Helm's villainess and her sadistic henchman Carl Kent, make little impression (including Robert Armstrong's routine shipping fleet owner).Visually, the film is more interesting. There are only a few shots of San Francisco (most notably Conway boarding a cable car), but the sets (some doubtless standing from The Magnificent Ambersons) are extensive and well-lit. It's easy to separate the work of the two cameramen. Although they're a good match, Miller's glossy black images using little if any fill light, such as the scenes in Moffett's bedroom, are a characteristic that few other cinematographers would duplicate.Despite its fair-sized budget (and its many echoes from Hammett and Chandler), The Falcon in San Francisco is definitely one of the lesser entries in the series. It's just too contrived.OTHER VIEWS: With his sweeping camera movements through crowded sets, and other establishing shots through all sorts of "frames", plus a bit of location shooting in San Fancisco itself, director Joseph H. Lewis manages to get a fair bit of production value into this entry. Unfortunately his efforts are largely wasted on a mindlessly convoluted-but-who-cares plot. Conway is unperturbed, but some of the other principals try hard (in Brophy's case too hard) to interest us in the characters, but with only passing success.

utgard14 Good entry in the Falcon series that features the return of sidekick Goldie Locke. No, it's not Allen Jenkins, unfortunately. This time Goldie is played by Edward Brophy. He's not quite as good as Jenkins but he's fun in his way. Tom Conway certainly benefits from having someone to play off of. The plot to this one has the Falcon vacationing in San Francisco when he tries to help a little girl and gets mixed up in a plot involving murder and a mystery surrounding a former bootlegger. Good supporting cast includes Robert Armstrong, Fay Helm, and Jason Robards, Sr. Rita Corday returns for another Falcon movie, again playing a new character. Child actor Sharyn Moffett is very cute. This is an entertaining film in a series that had started to look like it was on its last legs when the Falcon was rambling around Texas and Mexico.

robert-temple-1 This is the eleventh Falcon film, notable for the entry of a child actress in a major role. Having the Falcon exchange witty lines with Sharyn Moffett who in the film 'will be 18 in nine years' time', as she puts it, and who 'has decided to marry Tom Lawrence (the Falcon)' when she grows up 'but then he'll have to stop chasing after other girls', is a refreshing and amusing change. Tom Conway does very well at communicating with a kid, and Sharyn is charming in the part. Unfortunately, the hideously boring and coarse Edward Brophy is the Falcon's sidekick in this one, which is so annoying. There is a marvellous wicked femme fatale in this one played by Fay Helm, who obviously finds it delicious to be devilish. Rita Corday appears in her fifth Falcon film, and has become a reliable fixture in the series. Robert Armstrong, solid and good viewing, appears in this one and adds conviction to a double identity. The film is well directed by Joseph H. Lewis, his one foray into falconry, with some good San Francisco location shots, excellent framing, and a nice pace. The story is satisfying in its puzzling complexity, and we really can't figure out very much at all until we get near the end. Falconers will enjoy this one, and lesser mortals should too.

bob.decker I watched this expecting, given the budget limitations of B-picture series, to see only a few "establishing shots" of San Francisco from stock footage, but a surprising number of scenes appear actually to have been shot on location -- or were at least very convincingly matted. Even more impressive is the film's rather successful grasp of San Francisco atmosphere. Too-handsome tough guys, a twisted dame with a streak of brutality, a gloomy Nob Hill mansion, and details like the extras in the nightclub scene and the furnishings in the dame's apartment are all done quite as well as in the higher-budgeted "Out of the Past." Some continuity elements seem to have been left on the cutting room floor, as in other RKO noirs, but to good effect, and it is obvious the bit players (including Dorothy Adams) were carefully chosen. Better preserved than some of the Falcon pictures, this one merits attention beyond the context of the series.