When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (
Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known as "The Falcon," reluctantly agrees to investigate. The death appears to have been induced by a heart attack, but the instructor's roommate (
Rita Corday) had predicted that the victim would be murdered. The school's dean (
Barbara Brown) dies shortly afterward, and suspicion falls upon the fencing instructor (
Jean Brooks), who'd been in line to inherit the school. Other suspects include a foreign psychology professor (
George Givot), who'd once courted the fencing teacher, and a meek music teacher (
Isabel Jewell), to whom the foreign prof is secretly married. The murderer is revealed in a heart-stopping climactic scene played out on a perilous cliff overlooking the ocean. The Falcon and the Co-Eds is the sixth film in RKO Radio's "
Falcon" series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide