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Director:
Sidney Salkow
Writers:
Harry Segall (screenplay) &
Albert Duffy (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 January 1940 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller more
Tagline:
HE'S T-N-T IN A TOP HAT...OR A WOMAN'S ARMS! (original poster - all caps)
Plot:
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires Michael Lanyard (aka The Lone Wolf)... more | add synopsis
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Pearls--it's always the pearls!!... more (5 total)

Cast

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Warren William ... Michael Lanyard
Joan Perry ... Delia Jordan
Eric Blore ... Jamison
Alan Baxter ... Jim Ryder
Astrid Allwyn ... Binnie Weldon
Montagu Love ... Emil Gorlick
Robert Wilcox ... Ralph Bolton
Don Beddoe ... Inspector Conroy
Fred Kelsey ... Detective Dickens (as Fred A. Kelsey)
Addison Richards ... Stanley Young
Roy Gordon ... Phillip Jordan
Harland Tucker ... Alberts
George Lynn ... Dorgan (as Peter Lynn)
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
USA:67 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #5925) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Sweden:Btl
Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Gene Morgan is in studio records/casting call lists playing "Drunk," but he did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by The Lone Wolf in Mexico (1947) more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Pearls--it's always the pearls!!..., 6 October 2007
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Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

Delightful entry in the Lone Wolf series starring WARREN WILLIAMS, this time with JOAN PERRY as the young woman seeking to find the killers who murdered her wealthy father. With a larger than usual role for valet ERIC BLORE, who makes the most of his comic abilities, this one gets off to a merry start and provides a good mix of laughs and shady bits of suspense.

The cast is in fine form--especially when MONTAGU LOVE turns up as a European diamond merchant with thick accent, bushy mustache and monocle. The story is all about the theft of a pearl necklace from the safe of Philip Jordan (Perry's father) and his murder. The Lone Wolf takes the case when the daughter pleads with him and from then on it's standard Lone Wolf fare with the plot leading to a satisfying capture of the killer thieves.

Summing up: Delightful entry in the series.

Trivia note: For awhile, I thought the actor playing Ralph Bolton was Craig Stevens, but it turns out it was RALPH WILCOX who was married, first to Florence Rice, and then to Diana Barrymore--who dedicated her book "Too Much, Too Soon" to Wilcox, with whom she went on alcoholic binges during their five year marriage. Very handsome actor who never made it to stardom in Hollywood, probably due to alcoholism.

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