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Raffles (1930)
Director: Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast, George Fitzmaurice
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From Time Out Film Guide
EW Hornung's 'Raffles' helped fix the ideal of the gentleman amateur, the handsome urbane sportsman with a hankering for illicit adventure. In this caper, scripted by Sidney Howard, Raffles romances Lady Gwen Manders (Francis), hobnobs with royalty, and pinches a priceless necklace for a suicidal friend who can't honour a debt. John Barrymore had played the hero a few years before, David Niven was to play him a few years later, but neither matched Colman's effortless, brilliantined charm.Author: GM
Cast & crew
Director: Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast, George Fitzmaurice
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Cast: Ronald Colman, Bramwell Fletcher, David Torrence, Kay Francis, Frances Dade, Alison Skipworth full cast
Duration: 72 mins
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