A. J. Raffles (Ronald Colman) gives up his gentleman jewel thief work as the Amateur Cracksman for his relationship with Lady Gwen (Kay Francis). His friend Bunny Manders (Bramwell Fletcher) is in desperate straits with his gambling debts. He decides to do one more job for his friend.
There are the short stories and the plays and the silent films. This is the first talkie with this character created by E. W. Hornung. His brother-in-law Arthur Conan Doyle created the iconic Sherlock Holmes and Raffles can be seen as the inverted version of Sherlock. He is the quintessential gentleman thief. It's pretty standard with a dash of interesting. I would pick a better reason for Raffles to get back into the game although this may suggests that he's doing this for himself. I like some of the Raffles and Lady Gwen scenes. I don't know anything about this franchise, but I would like her involved in his capers.
There are the short stories and the plays and the silent films. This is the first talkie with this character created by E. W. Hornung. His brother-in-law Arthur Conan Doyle created the iconic Sherlock Holmes and Raffles can be seen as the inverted version of Sherlock. He is the quintessential gentleman thief. It's pretty standard with a dash of interesting. I would pick a better reason for Raffles to get back into the game although this may suggests that he's doing this for himself. I like some of the Raffles and Lady Gwen scenes. I don't know anything about this franchise, but I would like her involved in his capers.