The Falcon in Hollywood

The Falcon in Hollywood is a 1944 crime film directed by Gordon Douglas and stars Tom Conway in his recurring role as a suave amateur sleuth, supported by Barbara Hale, Jean Brooks, and Rita Corday. The film was the 10th of 16 in Falcon detective series. Plot While on vacation in Los Angeles, Tom Lawrence, aka The Falcon, meets Inspector McBride at the Hollywood Park Racetrack, asking him about casino owner Louie Buchanan. Lawrence helped put Buchanan away but does not know his present whereabouts. Returning to his seat, Lawrence finds Buchanan standing behind him. Seated next to Tom is actress Lili D'Allio. When she leaves to make a bet, Peggy Callahan sits down in her spot; when she departs, she takes Lili's purse by mistake. Tom hails a cab, driven by wisecracking Billie Atkins to try to catch up to Callahan, an actress at the Sunset Studio. Hearing a gunshot, Lawrence rushes to a deserted sound stage, where he finds a corpse; he notices a large, unusual ring on the dead man's finger. When he brings a studio guard, the body is not there. After stumbling across the body, missing the ring, in a prop room, Atkins identifies the deceased as leading man Ted Miles, who was married to Roxanna, the studio's costume designer. Bringing autocratic director Alec Hoffman, whom she says she will marry, Roxanna exhibits no emotion when shown her former husband's body.