Lone Wolf Collection

Warren William

Ruth Ford

Roger Clark

Victor Jory

Eric Blore

Thurston Hall

Fred Kelsey

Victor Kilian

Marlo Dwyer

Lester Sharpe

Irving Mitchell

John Harmon

Joe McGuinn

Wheaton Chambers

Ken Christy

James Conaty

Bob Reeves

Walter Sande

Harry Strang

John Tyrrell

Paul Phillips

Edward Dmytryk

Stuart Palmer

Louis Joseph Vance

Morris Stoloff

Gregory Stone

Werner R. Heymann

Jack Fier

Leigh Harline

Lionel Banks

Eugene Joseff

Sidney Cutner

Philip Tannura

Richard Fantl

Ben Oakland

Crime

Mystery

Romance

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

"Haven't you ever heard of ricochet?" "Yeah, it's a Chinese taxi"... Poor old "Dickens" (Fred Kelsey) is just as hopeless as usual in this outing for "Lanyard" (Warren William) and his loyal and engaging factotum "Jamison" (Eric Blore). To his credit, this time "Insp. Crane" (Thurston Hall) decides to get in front of a crime by engaging the services of the "Lone Wolf" to anticipate the theft of the famous "Napoleon" collection of priceless gems and so help prevent any such pinching. Of course, nothing goes to plan and when the stones are stolen in a version of the fashion outlined by "Lanyard", the police conclude that it has to be him! Now he has to prove his innocence and track down the true culprit before the inspector blows a gasket or two and he ends up in Sing Sing. It's all a bit formulaic, this one - but it does benefit from the only sparing interventions of Ruth Ford's "Helen" and from a decent pace set aboard a yacht usually smothered in dense fog (or just badly lit?). The ending is busy and entertaining and I actually found this to be one of the better adventures for our duo.

English