Raffles (1939)

David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton ... see more  , Lionel Pape , E.E. Clive , Peter Godfrey , Margaret Seddon , Gilbert Emery , Hilda Plowright , Vesey O'Davoren , George Cathrey , Keith Hitchcock , Harry Allen , George Atkinson , Frank Baker , Charles Coleman , Elspeth Dudgeon , James Finlayson , Gibson Gowland , Forrester Harvey , Leyland Hodgson , Olaf Hytten , Charles Irwin , Colin Kenny , George Kirby , Wilfred Lucas , David Thursby , Eric Wilton , Herbert Clifton , Douglas Gordon , John Graham Spacey , Larry Dods , John Power

The fourth cinematic version of the novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, this romantic caper is a virtual remake of the 1930 version. David Niven stars as A.J. Raffles, a famed cricke... read more t player of English society's upper crust. Secretly, however, Raffles is a skilled cat burglar known as "The Amateur Cracksman" to Scotland Yard, which has been unable to catch him. Known for returning the items he's filched, Raffles is about to give up a life of crime because he's fallen for Gwen (Olivia de Havilland), a rich society girl. But first Gwen's brother, Bunny (Douglas Walton), needs help to extricate himself from a gambling debt that will be satisfied nicely by the valuable necklace owned by royal Lady Melrose (May Whitty). At a party thrown by Melrose, a rival thief and a detective (Dudley Digges) stand in Raffles' way, although the nimble and perturbed master criminal has a master plan that will result in the least possible harm coming to all involved. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi