Raffles helped fix the ideal of the gentleman amateur, the handsome urbane sportsman with a hankering for illicit adventure.
Raffles (1930)
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Reviews Counted:2
Fresh:2
Rotten:0
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Runtime: 72 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An amateur safe-cracker with a knack for eluding Scotland Yard's best--and for romancing London's finest ladies--gets forced into doing one last job to aide a desperate school chum. Based on E.W.... An amateur safe-cracker with a knack for eluding Scotland Yard's best--and for romancing London's finest ladies--gets forced into doing one last job to aide a desperate school chum. Based on E.W. Hornung's novel, "The Amateur Cracksman." Originally filmed in 1917 with John Barrymore, followed by two other remakes in 1925 and 1940. [More]
Starring: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade
Starring: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade, David Torrence, Frederick Kerr, Wilson Benge, Alison Skipworth
Director: Harry D'Arrast, George Fitzmaurice
Director: Harry D'Arrast, George Fitzmaurice
Screenwriter: Sidney Howard
Story: E.W. Hornung
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Reviews for Raffles
The essence of its interest is a rascal so captivating that you are pleased to see him emerge triumphant, though guilty, from his brush with Scotland Yard.
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