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  1. 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 ...

  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0021281Raffles (1930) - IMDb

    Raffles: Directed by George Fitzmaurice, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast. With Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence, Frederick Kerr. A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman".

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    • Adventure, Crime, Drama
    • George Fitzmaurice, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
    • 1930-07-24
  3. The 1930 Ronald Colman film of Raffles was the first talking version of the story. Colman was fresh off the big success of his first talkie Bulldog Drummond (1929) when producer Sam Goldwyn snapped up the rights to Raffles as a vehicle for him.

  4. Jul 21, 2017 · Usually in shadows. It’s a good look, though. Raffles is a very light, playful film that never really dents Colman’s impenetrable persona. Much of the story is limp or slow, and what little tension there is– between Gwen and Raffles, certainly not with the police– is absent for much of the movie, and made a non-factor almost instantly ...

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  5. Writer Sidney Howard also wrote the script for the 1930 Goldwyn film Raffles. According to a November 1938 news item in Motion Picture Daily, this picture, originally titled Colonel Rowan of Scotland Yard, was to have been filmed in England. The war in Europe caused the studio to change its production plans.

    • Sam Wood, Walter Mayo
    • David Niven
  6. Raffles (1930) Raffles (1930) Raffles (1930) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis An infamous jewel thief in England known as "The Amateur Cracksman" is none other than the gentleman A.J. Raffles ...

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  8. A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.

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