Trivia

The third of 16 movies for the suave detective nicknamed "The Falcon," released from 1941 to 1949, and the third of four starring George Sanders.

The novel "Farewell, My Lovely" by Raymond Chandler has been made by major studios three times over the years --- first The Falcon Takes Over (1942) with George Sanders. The second film done only two years later was Murder, My Sweet (1944) starring Dick Powell. The third film 31 years later Farewell, My Lovely (1975) starring Robert Mitchum.

This is the third Falcon entry in a row in which Hans Conried plays a different character.

Although the story is supposed to take place in contemporaneous 1942, the stock footage of Times Square was evidently shot two years earlier as the first-run marquee shows The Boys from Syracuse (1940). Another shot shows a marquee for Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard.

The Falcon Takes Over (1942) (also known as "The Falcon Steps Out") is a black-and-white mystery film directed by Irving Reis. The B film was the third, following The Gay Falcon (1941) and A Date with the Falcon (1942), to star George Sanders as the character Gay Lawrence, a gentleman detective known by the sobriquet the Falcon.