Lone Wolf Collection

Warren William

Ida Lupino

Rita Hayworth

Virginia Weidler

Ralph Morgan

Tom Dugan

Don Beddoe

Leonard Carey

Ben Welden

Brandon Tynan

Helen Lynd

Irving Bacon

Frank Baker

James Blaine

Sammy Blum

Stanley Brown

Russ Clark

Edmund Cobb

Alec Craig

James Craig

Beatrice Curtis

Dick Curtis

Lew Davis

Vernon Dent

Dick Elliott

Herbert Evans

Eddie Fetherston

Lorna Gray

Sam Harris

Edward Hearn

J. Anthony Hughes

Bud Jamison

Lola Jensen

I. Stanford Jolley

Eddie Laughton

Marc Lawrence

James Millican

Bruce Mitchell

Bert Moorhouse

Edmund Mortimer

Forbes Murray

Jack Norton

Lee Phelps

Landers Stevens

John Tyrrell

Marek Windheim

Joseph Sistrom

Robert Kalloch

Lodge Cunningham

Joseph Nussbaum

Jerome Pycha Jr.

Peter Godfrey

Jonathan Latimer

Louis Joseph Vance

Otto Meyer

Lionel Banks

Allen G. Siegler

Mystery

Comedy

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

The clever leader of a group of spies invites our eponymous character (Warren William) to open a safe in return for $10,000. He declines and leaves the scene - but not before he leaves one of his distinctive cigarettes behind. With the constantly pursuing "Insp. Thomas" (Don Beddoe) and bumbling "Devan" (Tom Dugan) on his case, he now finds himself framed for a robbery - and that very cigarette is the conclusive proof the cops want! Aided by infrequent contributions from his valet "Jamison" (Leonard Carey), his attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery are frustrated at every turn by the hugely annoying ""Karen" (Rita Hayworth) who even resorts to a pair of handcuffs to make sure the "Lone Wolf" keeps her in the loop. To compensate for that constant irritation, we do get a few "colourful" scenes between her and the real woman behind the mystery here "Val" (Ida Lupino) that are worth a watch as the rest of this follows the traditional, well trammelled, lines towards it's conclusion. It's not really the story that matters here - it's the fun dynamic between the three actors and a reasonably lively script that help this keep from mediocrity.

English