Lone Wolf Collection

Warren William

June Storey

Henry Wilcoxon

Eric Blore

Thurston Hall

Don Beddoe

Evalyn Knapp

Fred Kelsey

William Forrest

Walter Kingsford

Lloyd Bridges

Ben Taggart

Ernie Adams

Irving Bacon

Stanley Brown

Edmund Cobb

Art Gilmore

Jesse Graves

Chuck Hamilton

Eddie Hart

George Hickman

I. Stanford Jolley

Tom London

Ralph McCullough

Joe McGuinn

George McKay

Corbet Morris

Cyril Ring

Ralph Sanford

Harry Strang

Regis Toomey

John Tyrrell

Sidney Salkow

Earl Felton

Louis Joseph Vance

Lionel Banks

Morris Stoloff

John Stumar

Viola Lawrence

Mystery

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Warren William is the eponymous trouble maker for poor old "Insp. Crane" (Thurston Hall) who bets him that he can't behave himself for just one day! Well, of course he can't - indeed pretty sharpish he and stalwart "Jamison" (Eric Blore) are up to their necks in the theft of some US treasury plates from a supposedly impenetrable car invented by "Baker" (Lloyd Bridges). That's only the half of it - there's a killer afoot too and our not so wily policeman only has one suspect. What now ensues is an entertaining, if formulaic, join-the-dots mystery as June Storey provides an adequate damsel in distress ("Gloria") and the dialogue some fun and mischievous quips for Blore to raise the odd smile. There's a bit more meat on the bones of the adventure element to this with plenty of daft fisticuffs before the baddie is suitably apprehended. It's a bit too long - takes a while to get up an head of steam, but it does get there and ultimately it's a watchable little story that begs the question. When will "Crane" ever learn to trust in the "Wolf"?

English