Most Falcon films end with a teaser previewing his next case. The first time it accurately presaged the sequel's plot was for "The Falcon and the Co-eds."
The fourth of five Falcon films with Cliff Clark as Inspector Donovan and the seventh of eight with Edward Gargan as Detective Bates.
The use of a stable of actors was an accepted practice among movie studios and production companies. This concept was common to stage performances and radio programming as well. Orson Welles had his Mercury Theater performers revolving through his films and on-air dramatizations. In fact, all the studios used this concept, as did RKO in the "Falcon" series. It was nothing exceptional to audiences to see familiar faces in various episodic roles.
The seventh of sixteen movies for the suave detective nicknamed "The Falcon" released from 1941 to 1949, and the fourth of ten in which Tom Conway plays the title character.
Three actors from producer Val Lewton's film The Seventh Victim (1943) (Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, and Isabel Jewell) star in "The Falcon and the Co-eds". Both films are murder mysteries.