--- title: 'The Falcon Takes Over (1942)' type: 'film' director: 'Irving Reis' released: '1942-01-01' runtime_minutes: 67 genres: - 'Crime' - 'Mystery' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-falcon-takes-over-1942' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034716/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Falcon Takes Over (1942) 1942 · 67 min · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · United States ## Synopsis The Falcon Takes Over, is a 1942 black-and-white mystery film directed by Irving Reis. Although the film features the Falcon and other characters created by Michael Arlen, its plot is taken from the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, My Lovely, with the Falcon substituting for Chandler's archetypal private eye Philip Marlowe and the setting of New York City replacing Marlowe's Los Angeles beat. The B film was the third, following The Gay Falcon and A Date with the Falcon (1941), to star George Sanders as the character Gay Lawrence, a gentleman detective known by the sobriquet the Falcon. ## Credits - **Director:** [Irving Reis](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-reis) - **Screenplay:** [Frank Fenton](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-fenton-2) - **Original Music Composer:** [Constantin Bakaleinikoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/constantin-bakaleinikoff) ## Cast - [Mickey Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/mickey-simpson) - [Charlie Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-hall) - [Lynn Bari](https://cinepixo.com/people/lynn-bari) - [Edward Gargan](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-gargan) - [Hans Conried](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-conried) - [James Gleason](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-gleason) - [Anne Revere](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-revere) - [Allen Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-jenkins) - [Harry Shannon](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-shannon) - [George Cleveland](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-cleveland) - [Ward Bond](https://cinepixo.com/people/ward-bond) - [Turhan Bey](https://cinepixo.com/people/turhan-bey) - [Selmer Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/selmer-jackson) - [George Sanders](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-sanders) as The Falcon ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-falcon-takes-over-1942 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7733169); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.