
Framed(1947)
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.


“Second of new screen series with the star who played The Saint.”
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.

George Sanders
Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

Wendy Barrie
Helen Reed

James Gleason
Inspector Michael 'Mike' O'Hara

Allen Jenkins
Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke

Mona Maris
Rita Mara

Fred Aldrich
Spectator at Airport (uncredited)

Bobby Barber
Spectator (uncredited)

Roxanne Barkley
Jill (uncredited)

Eddie Borden
Second Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Jack Carr
First Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A Date with the Falcon is a crime, mystery film released in 1942 exploring themes of the falcon. Directed by Irving Reis, it stars George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason. In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
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