One Dangerous Night

One Dangerous Night 1943 is the ninth Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures. It features Warren William in his seventh and secondtolast performance as the protagonist detective Lone Wolf, and Warren Ashe as Sidney Shaw, the films antagonist. The film was directed by Michael Gordon and written by Arnold Phillipsfr, Max Nosseck, and Donald Davis.

Former jewel thief and reformed detective Michael Lanyard Warren William, or the Lone Wolf, is driving to a party with his butler Jamison Eric Blore. Halfway through the journey, they come across Eve Andrews Marguerite Chapman, who requests that they bring her to Harry Coopers Gerald Mohr residence. Meanwhile, Cooper, an unprofessed criminal, is carrying out a scheme to loot the jewellery of select wealthy persons namely, Jane Merrick Monia Barrie, Sonia Budenny Tala Birell and Andrews. Cooper is killed before he can finish his plans by an unknown assailant. Lanyard, who happens to be at the scene, is pinpointed by the suspicious police as the perpetrator. He escapes but is found by magazine writer Sidney Shaw Warren Ashe, who agrees not to rat Lanyard out in exchange for a scoop.The Lone Wolf interrogates the women at the murder scene but is unable to find a lead. He is then captured by two criminals working under Arthur Louis Jean Heydt, Coopers righthand man. Lanyard breaks free and flees, reuniting with Jamison and Shaw. The trio sneak into Coopers house and decide to tail Arthur, who is leaving for the airport. The criminal turns out to be meeting a female teen named Patricia Blake Margaret Hayes. Unaware of Coopers death, she becomes distressed when the news is broken to her. ........

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