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Appointment with Murder

  • 1948
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  • 1h 7min
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John Calvert, Catherine Craig, and Barbara Freking in Appointment with Murder (1948)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaThe Falcon is hired by an insurance company to recover two stolen paintings, a job that takes him across the country and then across the Atlantic to Italy. Before he knows it, his investigat... Leer todoThe Falcon is hired by an insurance company to recover two stolen paintings, a job that takes him across the country and then across the Atlantic to Italy. Before he knows it, his investigation leads him into a world of double-crosses and big-time art fraud.The Falcon is hired by an insurance company to recover two stolen paintings, a job that takes him across the country and then across the Atlantic to Italy. Before he knows it, his investigation leads him into a world of double-crosses and big-time art fraud.

  • Dirección
    • Jack Bernhard
  • Guionistas
    • Joel Malone
    • Harold Swanton
    • Don Martin
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    • John Calvert
    • Catherine Craig
    • Jack Reitzen
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Jack Bernhard
    • Guionistas
      • Joel Malone
      • Harold Swanton
      • Don Martin
    • Elenco
      • John Calvert
      • Catherine Craig
      • Jack Reitzen
    • 12Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 5Opiniones de los críticos
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    John Calvert
    John Calvert
    • Michael Waring aka The Falcon
    Catherine Craig
    Catherine Craig
    • Lorraine W. Brinckley
    Jack Reitzen
    Jack Reitzen
    • Norton Benedict
    Lyle Talbot
    Lyle Talbot
    • Fred M. Muller
    Peter Brocco
    Peter Brocco
    • Giuseppe Donatti
    Ben Welden
    Ben Welden
    • Martin Minecci
    Robert Conte
    • Count Dano
    Jay Griffith
    • Detective
    Michael Mark
    Michael Mark
    • 2nd Baggage Clerk
    Carlo Schipa
    Carlo Schipa
    • Mario Farello
    • (as Carlos Schipa)
    Anna Demetrio
    • Senora Rosa - Italian Woman
    • (as Ann Demetrio)
    Carole Donne
    • Miss Connors
    Barbara Freking
    • Barbara O'Brien - The Model
    Fred Aldrich
    Fred Aldrich
    • Policeman
    • (sin créditos)
    Jack Chefe
    • Johnny - Hotel Clerk
    • (sin créditos)
    Gene Garrick
    Gene Garrick
    • 1st Thug
    • (sin créditos)
    James Griffith
    James Griffith
    • Detective
    • (sin créditos)
    Pat Lane
    • Customs Officer
    • (sin créditos)
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      • Jack Bernhard
    • Guionistas
      • Joel Malone
      • Harold Swanton
      • Don Martin
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    5blanche-2

    The Magician John Calvert stars as "The Falcon"

    The remarkable John Calvert stars as The Falcon in "Appointment with Murder" from 1948. This was one of three Falcon films made in 1948 by Calvert.

    In this film, The Falcon (now called Michael Waring) is working for an insurance company and is sent to Europe to trace some paintings. He becomes involved with art forgers and the murder of an art forger in Italy.

    A note about the name - supposedly The Falcon's name here is Michael Waring but it sounded in the film like Watling every time someone said it.

    Calvert was debonair and sophisticated, but the movies aren't as much fun as the films with George Sanders. This film was very dry without the usual humor seen with The Falcon.

    Calvert's actual career was that of a magician. He was the inspiration of Siegfried and Roy, and Mrs. Houdini said he was second to Harry as far as talent. Throughout his life, he traveled extensively doing magic shows, teaching, and occasionally doing a bit of acting.

    Calvert was invited to perform his magic act both on Broadway in New York City and at the London Palladium Theatre on his 100th birthday. He died at the age of 102.
    4Leofwine_draca

    Murky little potboiler

    APPOINTMENT WITH MURDER is a late entry in a long-running series of films about The Falcon, an international crime fighter who tours the globe bringing various criminals to justice. I haven't seen any of these films before - at least, I don't think I have - so I wasn't sure what to expect from this one.

    What I got was a murky little potboiler with a few neat action sequences to recommend it, but a film which is overall let down by a convoluted plot line and a poor choice of hero. The pockmarked John Calvert has a face that is permanently contorted into a sneer, so he ends up looking more like a villainous henchman than the hero of the piece. By contrast one of this movie's chief villains looks like a cuddly teddy bear so you can't take him seriously as a menacing figure.

    The plot is about the hunt for a couple of stolen and priceless paintings but it doesn't really amount to much apart from lots of back and forth sort of stuff with the authorities and some tacked-on romance type material. You have to laugh at the way the police don't bother getting involved in the proceedings and corpses are left laying around at various intervals. I didn't mind the brief fight scenes but overall APPOINTMENT WITH MURDER is a letdown.
    10Bernie4444

    The 15th of 16 movies for the detective nicknamed "The Falcon"

    This is the second of John Calvert's three "The Falcon" features released on 24 NOV 48.

    You may recognize many of the actors from the time. That is part of the fun in watching; this includes the third Falcon, John Calvert, who might not be as revered as the first two Falcon actors.

    -------- Michael Waring aka The Falcon (John Calvert) is hired by an insurance company to retrieve two stolen paintings. In the process, he travels to Italy and encounters murder.

    The plot thickens when many people are double-crossed and even the paintings are suspected to be forgeries.

    Will the Falcon succeed? Or there just might be another murder!
    8django-1

    post-Tom Conway "Falcon" mystery, from dir. of "Decoy"

    After the Falcon series ran its course with Tom Conway at RKO, the character was taken over for a few films with John Calvert in the role, made on a low budget for the interesting "Film Classics" company, which specialized in indie crime/noir/mystery films for a few years in the late 40s--this was the 2nd of 3 such Falcon entries. It most resembles the later PRC product, but is a step below PRC in the professionalism department, with a mix of veterans and seeming amateurs in the cast, and with a few small cheap sets. The plot revolves around art theft and fraud, and setting is LA and Italy, Italy being represented by a room and a staircase! John Calvert is quite different from Tom Conway as an actor--yes,he is tall and has a thin moustache, and he speaks in an subdued, educated manner, but he isn't the charmer or the wit of Conway's character, and here he is in the employ of an insurance company, where he reports to the hardest-working-man-in-b-movies, Lyle Talbot. There's never really any doubt about who does what to whom, but the various characters are all attempting to fool other characters as to their true identity and motives, so the "mystery" is how long that will keep up... as well as whether the Falcon will be able to resolve the art fraud situation. I've watched this film twice in the last year, and it's a decent late 40s low-budget mystery that's as good as the average 45-47 PRC film or late 40s/early 50s Eagle-Lion/Lippert output. Like a good little-known detective novel that you stumble across from the 40s or 50s, this film does what it needs to do and no doubt satisfied its audience in its day. Director Jack Bernhard--who made the amazing Decoy and the almost-as- amazing Violence the year before at Monogram--doesn't have the same kind of over-the-top, pulpy material to work with here, but no doubt could work efficiently in the vein of a William Berke or a Sam Newfield. Don't expect another Decoy here. Anyone who is seriously into low-budget post-WWII detective movies enough to even know what this film is will probably want to see it.
    5boblipton

    A Pencil Thin Mustache

    In the second of three 'Falcon' mysteries starring John Calvert, he is working for Lyle Talbot's insurance company recovering stolen paintings. The trail leads to Italy, where an interesting variation on the 'Gold Ring' confidence game is in operation. Artist Peter Brocco offers Calvert a painting by the artist of the stolen paintings. While Calvert is thinking the deal over -- because he's not sure they're real -- he is offered a huge profit on them; the confidence game will end after he has paid and taken possession, whereupon they will be stolen from him.

    It's a nicely tangled mystery that leads him to Catherine Craig, a gallery owner and art authenticator in Los Angeles, and cross and double cross. Every time Calvert seems to have been swindled, he gets out of it with such nonchalant ease that all suspense is drained out of the movie: demonstrating that it takes more than a pencil-thin mustache, an erratic Ronald Colman imitation, and the writers on your side to make a movie star.

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      The second of John Calvert's three "The Falcon" features, shot August 1948 and released November 24.
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      Followed by Search for Danger (1949)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 24 de noviembre de 1948 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • Italiano
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      • A Date with Murder
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      • Falcon Pictures Corporation
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      • 1h 7min(67 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.37 : 1

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