Three different Falcons

For a character who started in a short story, there certainly was a lot of mileage gotten from The Falcon - a movie series, a radio program, and later a television program. What is interesting is how the character changed as it moved from one medium to another. George Sanders and Tom Conway portrayed a suave, sophisticated ladies' man in the movies. In the radio program the character was portrayed by several actors, but Les Damon's version is best remembered. He, also, was a ladies' man, but he had a harder edge to him in his dealings with criminals, with a sarcastic, cutting sense of humor. Finally Charles McGraw held forth in the television series. His Falcon was entirely hard-boiled, no-nonsense and effective.