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A.J. Raffles
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Raffles is a 1939 American crime comedy film starring David Niven and Olivia de Havilland, and is one of several film adaptations of an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman . Plot. A.J. Raffles, the celebrated cricketer, is welcomed in the parlours and country estates of high society.
Raffles: Directed by Sam Wood, William Wyler. With David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, May Whitty, Dudley Digges. Man about town and first class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Sam Wood, William Wyler
- 1939-12-29
Language. English. 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.
Inspector McKenzie (Dudley Digges) meets David Niven, the society-thief title character, known best as a cricket player for England, introduced by his host Lord Melrose (Lionel Pape) who mis-remembers who’s been given his new phone number, early in Samuel Goldwyn’s re-make, Raffles, 1939.
- Sam Wood, Walter Mayo
- David Niven
In the witty 1930 film Raffles, Ronald Colman stars as A.J. Raffles, a charming British gentleman who leads a double life. By day Raffles hobnobs with Britain's social elite, but by night he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman."
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If ever there was a film that should have been a lot better, it is the 1940 version of "Raffles" - excellently cast is David Niven as the Gentleman cracksman, and with Olivia de Havilland (at her loveliest) as his girl-friend Gwen, with two excellent supporting players in Dame May Whitty and Dudley Digges.
51min. 13+. Brash and crude, Reuben Rosenthall is a real "rough diamond:" a self-made millionaire who wears his wealth in the most ostentatious way possible. In other words, he's an irresistible target for Raffles, if not for the more hesitant Bunny. But as the friends find out, Rosenthall has a trick or two up his own sleeve.
