The Notorious Lone Wolf

The Notorious Lone Wolf 1946 is the eleventh Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures. The picture features Gerald Mohr in his inaugural performance as the protagonist detective Lone Wolf, Janis Carter, and Ian Wolfe as Adam Wainwright, the films antagonist. The film was directed by D. Ross Lederman and written by Martin Berkeley, Edward Dein, and William J. Bowers.

Having left the Army, reformed jewel thief and current detective Michael Lanyard Gerald Mohr, or the Lone Wolf, returns to New York to find his lover Carla Winter Janis Carter. On the way, he is tipped off by Inspector Crane William Davidson of the looting of the Shalimar, a diamond coowned by the Prince of Rapur Olaf Hytten and Lal Bara John Abbott. It is revealed that the jewel thief is Stonely Don Beddoe, owner of a bar.Meanwhile, Winters sister Rita Adelle Roberts requests for Lanyards help. Her husband, Dick Hale Robert Scott, has been cheating on his wife and is having an intimate affair with Lilli Virginia Hunter, a performer at Stonelys bar. The Lone Wolf and Hale go to the bar together, only to find Lilli murdered. Lanyard is pinpointed by the suspicious police as the perpetrator. He manages to escape and sets out to find the mastermind. Disguised as the Rapurian prince, Lanyard meets jeweller Adam Wainwright Ian Wolfe, who promises to retrieve the stolen Shalimar in exchange for a promised reward. ........

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