Ron Randell didn't work out as Bulldog Drummond so Columbia tried him as the Lone Wolf. He only got one film, but in his defence B movies were morphing into television.
He's actually quite good with his pencil moustache and sub Doug Fairbanks Jnr delivery. The thing is, the film doesn't give him much screen time - as much is taken up by a girl reporter June Vincent and his butler Alan Mowbray. Randell/Wolf is accused of a theft but that doesn't happen until about half an hour in.
Mowbray and Randell are shown to be serial sexual harrassers - I think Mowbray has his hand over a girl's breast in one scene.
Vincent isn't much, Randell and Mowbray are lively. There's not enough Lone Wolf. The script isn't right. Maybe that's how these Lone Wolf movies normally go, I'm not overly familiar with them.
Maybe it was simply too late for stories of former jewel thieves with butlers.
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