Appointment with Murder
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Appointment with Murder | |
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Directed by | Jack Bernhard |
Written by | Michael Arlen |
Produced by | Jack Bernhard |
Starring | John Calvert Catherine Craig Lyle Talbot |
Cinematography | Walter Strenge |
Edited by | |
Music by | Karl Hajos |
Production company | Falcon Pictures Corporation |
Distributed by | Film Classics |
Release date | November 24, 1948 |
Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Appointment with Murder is a 1948 American crime film directed by Jack Bernhard and starring John Calvert, Catherine Craig and . The film is one of three made by the low-budget Film Classics company featuring Calvert as The Falcon who had previously been played by George Sanders and Tom Conway for RKO.[1]
Premise[]
The Falcon travels to Milan to locate some stolen paintings for an insurance company. He follows the trail from a murdered Italian painter to an art gallery in Los Angeles.
Cast[]
- John Calvert as Michael Waring, the Falcon
- Catherine Craig as Lorraine W. Brinckley
- as Norton Benedict
- Lyle Talbot as Fred Muller
- Peter Brocco as Giuseppe Donatti
- Ben Welden as Martin Minecci
- as Count Dano
- as Detective
- Michael Mark as 2nd Baggage Clerk
- as Mario Farello
- Anna Demetrio as Senora Rosa - Italian Woman
- as Miss Connors
- as Barbara O'Brien - The Model
- as Johnny - Hotel Clerk
- as 1st Thug
- James Griffith as Detective
- as Customs Officer
- as 1st Baggage Clerk
- Frank Richards as 2nd Thug
- as Guard
- as Count Dano's Butler
References[]
- ^ Hardy p.124
Bibliography[]
- Hardy, Phil. The BFI Companion to Crime. University of California Press, 1997.
External links[]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1948 films
- American films
- American crime films
- 1948 crime films
- Films directed by Jack Bernhard
- Film Classics films
- Films set in Los Angeles
- Films set in Milan
- American black-and-white films
- The Falcon (film character) films
- Films scored by Karl Hajos
- 1940s crime film stubs