Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend...
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| David Niven | ... | Raffles | |
| Olivia de Havilland | ... | Gwen | |
| May Whitty | ... | Lady Melrose (as Dame May Whitty) | |
| Dudley Digges | ... | MacKenzie | |
| Douglas Walton | ... | Bunny | |
| E.E. Clive | ... | Barraclough | |
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Lionel Pape | ... | Lord Melrose |
| Peter Godfrey | ... | Crawshay | |
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Margaret Seddon | ... | Maud Holden |
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Hilda Plowright | ... | Wilson |
| Gilbert Emery | ... | Bingham | |
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Keith Hitchcock | ... | Merton |
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Vesey O'Davoren | ... | Butler |
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George Cathrey | ... | Melrose Footman |
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Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail. Written by Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
29 December 1939 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Caballero y ladrón See more »Edit
Box Office
Gross USA:
$86,600, 17 January 1940Company Credits
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1.37 : 1
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Lady Melrose: And I don't like Cricket. But I don't take a nap in the middle of the playing field.
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(1834) (uncredited)
Written by Frédéric Chopin
Played by an unidentified pianist at the party
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The film was originally titled Colonel Rowan of Scotland Yard. See more »Goofs
In the hansom cab, Raffles puts his arm behind Gwen above her shoulders, but in the next close-up shot of her, his arm isn't there. See more »Quotes
Lord Melrose: My dear, you know I don't like music.Lady Melrose: And I don't like Cricket. But I don't take a nap in the middle of the playing field.
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Fantaisie-Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op.66(1834) (uncredited)
Written by Frédéric Chopin
Played by an unidentified pianist at the party
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"Raffles" has one thing going for it: Olivia De Havilland is beautiful and appealing. This was in the early phase of her career.. She made many movies in which she was saucy and as pretty as anyone else in Hollywood. Then she turned to serious roles. She did well at those also but in certain ways, these early trifles are fun.
Dame May Witty, a versatile character actress, is totally wasted. She plays a standard dithering dowager. Any of at least ten actresses at the time could have done as well.
What "Raffles" needed was the right director. Sam Wood was at the helm of many fine movies. But this is not his genre. Alfred Hitchock could have had fun with it. Imagine this movie with Cary Grant in the title role, directed by Hitchcock. (It might have been like "To Catch a Thief." The full axiom from which that tile is taken is quoted in "Raffles.") But Lubitsch would have been the best for it. He could have turned it into a soufflé' about class, criminals vs heroes. It's not a soufflé, though: It's a blintz.