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Raffles

1930, Movie, NR, 70 mins

Raffles: Review

After being adapted for the stage, Ernest William Hornung's novel The Amateur Cracksman came to the screen twice in the silent era, with John Barrymore and House Peters cast as the roguish A.J. Raffles in the 1914 and 1925 versions, respectively. In this first sound version of the story, Ronald Colman is the famed British cricket player who spends his evenings as "The Amateur Cracksman," an equally famous criminal who consistently eludes Scotland Yard. Colman falls in love w... read more leave a comment