Raffles (1930)

Directed by

George Fitzmaurice

Genre

drama film, comedy film, heist film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 12m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A proper English gentleman secretly works as a jewel thief. He juggles his double life while courting a woman who is unaware of his criminal side.

lightheartedslycharmingplayfulwittysmoothromanticold-fashioned

What happens

Raffles is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It stars Ronald Colman as the title character, a proper English gentleman who moonlights as a notorious jewel thief, and Kay Francis as his love interest. It is based on the play Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1906) by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which was in turn adapted from the 1899 short story collection of the same name by Hornung. Oscar Lagerstrom was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording. The story had been filmed previously as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917) with John Barrymore as Raffles, and again as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925) by Universal Studios. A 1939 Goldwyn produced version, again titled just Raffles, starred David Niven in the title role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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