In the initial entry in the series, Helen Reed, played by Wendy Barrie, tries unsuccessfully to win Gay from his fiancee Elinor but fails. In this sequel, Elinor is not to be seen, and Helen has somehow replaced her as Gay's fiancee.
The second of sixteen movies for the suave detective nicknamed "The Falcon" starring George Sanders (and later Tom Conway) released from 1941 to 1949.
One of the conceits of the series was to end each film with a preview of the next. "The Gay Falcon" concluded with a distraught young woman telling the Falcon about her missing brother. The plot of "A Date with the Falcon" has nothing to do with that premise.
Wendy Barrie as Helen Reed, Allen Jenkins as Goldy and Eddie Dunn as Detective Grimes repeat their roles in this second entry in the series. Hans Conried, who appeared as Herman, the police artist in The Gay Falcon (1941), re-appears in a larger role as a snoopy hotel clerk, and Bobby Barber, who ran a club as Angelo in the previous film, is relegated to playing a walk-on as a member of the crowd watching George Sanders on a ledge.
In the first series entry, "The Gay Falcon," Goldie's name was spelled with an "ie", but here in the second it's spelled with a "y".