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.
21 films
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
Watching
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
Roy William Neill (Director) · Lionel Houser (Writer) · Joseph Krumgold (Writer) · Bruce Manning (Writer) · Louis Joseph Vance (Story)
Melvyn Douglas
Michael Lanyard
Gail Patrick
Marcia Stewart
Tala Birell
Liane Mallison
Henry Mollison
'Mal' Mallison
Thurston Hall
Inspector Crane
Raymond Walburn
Jenkins
Douglass Dumbrille
Morphew
Nana Bryant
Aunt Julie Stewart
Robert Middlemass
Chief of Detectives McGowan
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Detective Benson
Wyrley Birch
Mr. Cole
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Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.
