Name: Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Released: 1941-11-13
Duration: 66 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Warren William, Ruth Ford, Roger Clark, Victor Jory, Eric Blore

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

THE LONE WOLF'S GIVING LESSONS IN LARCENY...and HIS PUPIL'S ARE THE COPS!

Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.

CrimeMysteryRomance

DirectorEdward Dmytryk

WritersStuart Palmer, Louis Joseph Vance

StatusReleased

LanguageEnglish

Release DateNovember 13, 1941

Runtime1h 6m

Lone Wolf Collection

Includes: The Lone Wolf, The False Faces, The Lone Wolf, The Lone Wolf Returns, Alias the Lone Wolf, The Last of the Lone Wolf, The Lone Wolf Returns, The Lone Wolf in Paris, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, The Lone Wolf Strikes, The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady, The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date, The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance, Secrets of the Lone Wolf, Counter-Espionage, One Dangerous Night, Passport to Suez, The Notorious Lone Wolf, The Lone Wolf in Mexico, The Lone Wolf in London, The Lone Wolf and His Lady

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December 9, 20236/10

"Haven't you ever heard of ricochet?" "Yeah, it's a Chinese taxi"... Poor old "Dickens" (Fred Kelsey) is just as hopeless as usual in this outing for "Lanyard" (Warren William) and his loyal and engaging factotum "Jamison" (Eric Blore). To his credit, this time "Insp. Crane" (Thurston Hall) decides to get in front of a crime by engaging the services of the "Lone Wolf" to anticipate the theft of the famous "Napoleon" collection of priceless gems and so help prevent any such pinching. Of course, nothing goes to plan and when the stones are stolen in a version of the fashion outlined by "Lanyard", the police conclude that it has to be him! Now he has to prove his innocence and track down the true culprit before the inspector blows a gasket or two and he ends up in Sing Sing. It's all a bit formulaic, this one - but it does benefit from the only sparing interventions of Ruth Ford's "Helen" and from a decent pace set aboard a yacht usually smothered in dense fog (or just badly lit?). The ending is busy and entertaining and I actually found this to be one of the better adventures for our duo.