The Lone Wolf in Paris (1938) DVD-R

Starring Francis Lederer, Frances Drake, Olaf Hytten, Walter Kingsford,
Leona Maricle, Albert Dekker
Directed by Albert S. Rogell

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

After a three-year absence, Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series resumed with
the uneven The Lone Wolf in Paris. Francis Lederer stars as Louis Joseph
Vance's thief-turned-detective Michael Lanyard, alias The Lone Wolf.
While vacationing in Paris, Lanyard finds the gorgeous Princess Thania
(Frances Drake) hiding in his hotel bedroom. The Princess is trying to
retrieve her country's crown jewels from the treacherous Grand Duke
Gregor (Walter Kingsford) and his minions. Before our hero can recover
the gems and expose Gregor for the power-hungry rat that he really is, he
and Thania are kidnapped by Gregor's men, nearly meeting their doom at
the hands of an expert knife-thrower. An unconvincing exercise in
international intrigue, The Lone Wolf in Paris was an inauspicious
jump-start for the Columbia series: far better was the next entry, the
delightful Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, in which Warren William replaced the
charming but somewhat hollow Francis Lederer.