Louis Joseph Vance's MICHAEL LANYARD, better known as THE LONE WOLF, didn't start out as a private eye, but as a criminal. However, like Jack Boyle's Boston Blackie, thanks to his numerous re-creations in film, radio and television, The Lone Wolf is now best remembered these days, if at all, chiefly as a sort of gentleman thief turned private eye.
The Lone Wolf
1917
The False Faces
1919
The Lone Wolf
1924
The Lone Wolf Returns
1926
Alias the Lone Wolf
1927
The Last of the Lone Wolf
1930
The Lone Wolf Returns
1935
The Lone Wolf in Paris
1938
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1941
Counter-Espionage
1942
One Dangerous Night
1943
Passport to Suez
1943
The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946
The Lone Wolf in Mexico
1947
The Lone Wolf in London
1947
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
1949
Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three socialites.
as Michael Lanyard / The Lone Wolf
as Eve Andrews
as Jamison
as Jane Merrick
as Sonia Budenny
as Patricia Blake (Shaw)
as Vivian
as Inspector Crane
as Sidney Shannon
as Detective Dickens
CinemaSerf
Nov 11, 2023
I imagine this is the kind of movie you might have gone to see in a drive-in. Made amidst WWII, it tells a rather quirky tale of "Eve" (Marguerite Chapman) whose car is totalled and she is luckily rescued by the "Lone Wolf" himself (Warren William) and his loyal sidekick "Jamison" (Eric Blore). They escort her to her home only to find that when the…
