![]() ![]() Except for the name change and the fact that production had moved to the U.K., at first it was pretty hard to tell the difference - which didn’t escape the notice of Charteris. Regardless of the date of his first literary appearance, The Falcon was first brought to the screen in a 1941 RKO film, as a replacement for its popular series of B-movies featuring Leslie Charteris’ The Saint, which had starred actor George Sanders and been shot in the United States. ![]() ![]() And, like Boston Blackie, despite his murky origins, he enjoyed a long, lucrative and convoluted career in film, radio and television, even as his occupation and his actual name were changed from medium to medium. Or he was GAY STANHOPE FALCON, a sort of freelance adventurer and troubleshooter, definitely on the hard-boiled side, created by Michael Arlen (real name Dikran Kouyoumdjian) in a 1940 short story.Įither way, The Falcon was a man who made his living “keeping his mouth shut and engaging in dangerous entreprises,” according to Otto Penzler’s Detectionary. Huff) in 1936 and originally appearing in a series of novels and at least one short story. He was either MICHAEL WINGATE, a shadowy figure who took on the underworld with the aid of his friend Sarge, avoiding the police because they tended to blame him for their unsolved crimes, created by Drexel Drake (real name Charles H. THE FALCON was the nom de guerre of a true man of mystery. ![]()
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