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A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.
André Luguet
- Count Andre
- (as Andre Luguet)
Don Brodie
- Robber
- (uncredited)
Marie Burton
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
- Jewelry Salesman
- (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
- Charles
- (uncredited)
Sheila Darcy
- Maid
- (uncredited)
John Davidson
- Robbery Accomplice
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Erwin Gelsey
- Ladislas Fodor
- Bertram Bloch(English version)
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Did you know
- TriviaFifth of six films pairing William Powell and Kay Francis released from 1930 to 1932.
- GoofsWhen the police let go of the rope when they are pulling Johann Christian Lenz of the Vienna Protection Agency out of the well he doesn't immediately fall but slowly drifts back down into the well.
- Quotes
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: Oh! I want to play with these the way a child plays with sand. Try them all on. Pour them all over me. Bury myself in them. Oh, they're too heavenly! This necklace, where did you get it?
Robber: At a charity ball.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: What courage!
Robber: No, merely nimble fingers. The lady stood beside me. The Prince of Wales was announced. I could have removed her dress.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)
- SoundtracksOn the Beautiful Blue Danube (An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314)
(1867) (uncredited)
Music by Johann Strauss
Played on the phonograph during the robbery
Featured review
pre-code in a nutshell
This film has to be on the short list of films-that-epitomize-pre-code-Hollywood. Adultery, drugs, crime, flaunting of morals and convention, free-spirit thumbing their nose, all done with humour and glamour. One can understand why the church was upset! Problem was that there were many films that played on these themes so it must have seemed that Hollywood was really out to corrupt the world. This one has the full package but with a wink and smoothness that today's garbage film-makers would never have the patience to pull-off. Too bad the code swung the pendulum way too far in the other direction. A must-see for Francis and Powell fans.
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- Budget
- $291,039 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 8 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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