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The Falcon in Mexico (1944)

Approved | | Crime, Mystery | 1 February 1945 (Australia)
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An artist's daughter becomes suspicious when new paintings by her supposedly dead father begin turning up in New York. When a gallery owner is murdered, the Falcon and Miss Wade head for ... See full summary »

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Complete credited cast:
... Tom Lawrence
... Raquel
... Barbara Wade (as Martha MacVicar)
... Manuel Romero
Mary Currier ... Paula Dudley
... Dolores Ybarra
... Winthrop 'Lucky Diamond' Hughes
... Anton
... Don Carlos Ybarra (as Pedro De Cordoba)
... Pancho Romero
... Humphrey Wade
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An artist's daughter becomes suspicious when new paintings by her supposedly dead father begin turning up in New York. When a gallery owner is murdered, the Falcon and Miss Wade head for Mexico City to investigate. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

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Too many distracting process shots with actors in front of filmed backgrounds...
19 November 2007 | by – See all my reviews

RKO must have had a very small budget to work with when they made "The Falcon in Mexico", using stock footage of actual location photography but process photography for all of the studio shots with actors in front of the screened location backgrounds. It becomes such a distraction that there's a tendency not to follow the plot after awhile but just to watch how often the actors are in Hollywood rather than Mexico.

Whatever, the story is not intriguing enough and nobody seems to be trying very hard to bring it to life. Even the usually vivacious MARTHA VICKERS (who played the nymphomaniac in THE BIG SLEEP) has a hard time conveying any genuine emotion while she pines for her long lost father, while others in the cast are competent enough but not really inspired. NESTOR PAIVA has the best supporting role as an overly enthusiastic but helpful taxi driver called Manuel.

Nevertheless, Conway does a decent job as the debonair detective who has the same interest as the police in solving a crime, but seems to be avoiding them at every turn.

Some of the background photography is well filmed, but using process shots for scenes involving the actors is too obvious for comfort.

Summing up: All in all, a passable B-film entertainment.
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