Stuntman

 

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I'M STILL ALIVE-1940-Self-assured stuntman Steve Bennett (Kent Taylor) insults stuck up actress Laura Marley (Linda Hayes) and it's love at first sight. They get married and everything's fine until Laura gets upset at his stunt work. He decides to quit. Unfortunately, he has a hard time getting on without doing stunts. After a young stuntman is killed, Steve hits the skids and then barnstorms the country. Film producer Walter Blake (Ralph Morgan) tries to help. Eventually, his best friend Red (Howard DeSilva) helps him straighten out his life. Dick Elliot, Selmer Jackson, Sam McDaniels, Herb Vigran and retired silent film director Fred Niblo (as a film director) have unbilled roles. 

Harmless little B-movie directed by Irving Reis (THE GAY FALCON (1941)).

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The Falcon Flies In

 

 

THE GAY FALCON-1941-Gay Lawrence aka The Falcon (George Sanders) has quit his crime adventures and womanizing and settle down with his partner Goldy (Allen Jenkins) to become stockbrokers on Wall St. No sooner does he tell his fiancée Elinor (Ann Hunter) that he's ready to make a new start when he's visited by Helen Reed (Wendy Barrie), secretary to socialite Maxine Woods (Gladys Cooper), who it seems is robbed of some jewelry every time she throws a party. Of course, Lawrence can't resist another case. 

When another socialite Mrs. Gardner is murdered, Lawrence gets involved with Goldy as a material witness and Mrs. Gardner’s missing diamond is in his own pocket. Police chief Waldeck (Arthur Shields) thinks Lawrence is a murderer and Lawrence who has several run-ins with detective Bates (Edward Brophy) thinks the prime suspect is the mysterious Retana (Turhan Bey). With Hans Conreid is a police sketch artist, Willie Fung and Bobby Barber. 

This was the first of 16 film adaptations of the private detective known as The Falcon. George Sanders, who had also starred as “The Saint”, did several films then “grew bored” with role turning it over to his real-life brother Tom Conway. Irving Reis directed this entertaining, slightly lighthearted crime mystery. He directed 2 more in the series and later made a film adaptation of the Arthur Miller play ALL MY SONS (1948).

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