The Falcon Takes Over

Series regular cop O’Hara (James Gleason) and star George Sanders as Gay Lawrence, the suave amateur detective title character, enter the night club shot up that night by a thug named Moose Malloy, Allen Jenkins as “Goldie,” who accidentally got involved, in The Falcon Takes Over, 1942, based on a Raymond Chandler novel.

Opening the first movie version of Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, which RKO bought cheap for an installment in George Sanders’ “Falcon” serial, with Ward Bond as Moose Malloy seeking Velma, Allen Jenkins his unlucky interlocutor, in The Falcon Takes Over, 1942.

George Sanders (title character) has gamely persuaded sidekick Goldie (Allen Jenkins) to go straight to the Brooklyn house where he earlier dropped off thick-headed killer Moose Malloy (Ward Bond), eventually needing to improvise, in the series installment based on Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, The Falcon Takes Over, 1942.