Raffles Movie Review 1930

Debonair and dashing gentleman thief A.J. Raffles (Coleman) is a famed cricket player by day and a cat burglar by night, who's always been successful at eluding Scotland Yard. Then he falls for beautiful socialite Lady Gwen Manders (Francis) and gets invited to a weekend house party where Lady Kitty Melrose (Skipworth) just happens to own a very valuable necklace and one of the other guests is suspicious Scotland Yard inspector McKenzie (Torrance). Naturally Raffles goes after the jewels. Based on the novel "The Amateur Cracksman" by Ernest William Hornung. Director D'Arrast was fired by producer Goldwyn and Fitzmaurice finished the film.

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Available on VHS
Running time 72 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Burglars, Great Britain

Screenplay

Sidney Howard

Cast

Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Alison Skipworth, David Torrence, Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade

Cinematography

George Barnes, Gregg Toland

Director

Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast, George Fitzmaurice

Producer

Samuel Goldwyn