January 7 movie: The Gay Falcon. I think this maybe was the first Falcon movie? In any case, The Falcon was a series starring George Sanders (and later his brother, Tom Conway) about an amateur detective / ladies man. It seems like there were a lot of movies series around that time about suave amateur detectives. This was a fun bit of fluff, nothing to take too seriously. I enjoyed it, although it suffers the problem of a lot of murder mysteries: the villain seems to be a totally random person. I mean there's nothing leading up to it, the audience doesn't know of any possible motivation until after the reveal. It was nice to see Gladys Cooper playing her actual age, rather than the evil crone she so often portrayed.
One thing I definitely enjoyed better about the sequel I saw a few days ago: The Gay Falcon features a horrible stereotyped Chinese coolie butler, while The Falcon's Brother features a Chinese butler who's intelligent and fluent in English, but pretends to be a horrible coolie stereotype to get rid of annoying people. I guess that's an improvement.
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