Raffles (1939 film)

Raffles
Directed by	Sam Wood
Produced by	Samuel Goldwyn
Written by	E. W. Hornung (novel) John Van Druten Sidney Howard
Starring	David Niven Olivia de Havilland
Release date(s)	December 29, 1939
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Raffles is a 1939 film starring David Niven and Olivia de Havilland. It is one of several film adaptations of an 1899 novel by E. W. Hornung, Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman. In fact, Sidney Howard wrote the screenplay for both this movie and the 1930 film of the same name. F. Scott Fitzgerald may also have worked on the script, but this is unconfirmed.^[1]

Cast

David Niven as A. J. Raffles
Olivia de Havilland as Gwen Manders
Dame May Whitty as Lady Kitty Melrose
Dudley Digges as Inspector Mackenzie
Douglas Walton as Bunny Manders
E.E. Clive as Barraclough
Lionel Pape as Lord George Melrose
Peter Godfrey as Harry Crawshay

References

^ "Notes for Raffles (1939)". tcm.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.

External links

Raffles at the TCM Movie Database

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