Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941) DVD-R

Starring Warren William, Ruth Ford, Roger Clark, Victor Jory, Eric Blore,
Thurston Hall
Directed by Edward Dmytryk

Print: black/white
Runtime: 66 min.
Genre: mystery
Print Quality: B

Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played
in this Columbia B picture by the suave Warren William. The script
contrives to have Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison (Eric Blore) to be
mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers. They force poor
Jamison to participate in the theft of the valuable "Napoleon gems" which
Lanyard has been hired to protect. Most of the action takes place during
a steamship voyage, allowing Columbia to trot out its standard (but
impressive) shipboard sets and to cloud the budget limitations with
heavy fog. Secrets of the Lone Wolf was the eighth in Columbia's series
based on the mystery stories of Louis Joseph Vance.