- Jewel Robbery
Infobox Film
name = Jewel Robbery
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director =William Dieterle
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writer =Ladislas Fodor (play)Erwin S. Gelsey Bertram Bloch (English adaptation)
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starring =William Powell Kay Francis
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cinematography = Robert Kurrle
editing = Ralph Dawson
distributor =Warner Bros.
released =13 August ,1932
runtime = 70 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0023074"Jewel Robbery" is a 1932
comedy film directed byWilliam Dieterle and starringWilliam Powell andKay Francis . It was based on the play " Ekszerrablás a Váci-uccában" by Ladislas Fodor and the English adaptation, "Jewel Robbery", by Bertram Bloch.Plot
In
Vienna , Baroness Teri von Horhenfels (Kay Francis) relieves the boredom of her marriage to her rich but dull husband (Henry Kolker) with love affairs. One day, at an exclusive jewel shop to purchase a diamond ring, her tedium is lifted by a suave, charming thief (William Powell) and his gang. In turn, he is entranced by her beauty. He locks her husband and her latest lover, Paul (Hardie Albright) (of whom she has already tired), in the vault, and forces shop owner Hollander (Lee Kohlmar) to smoke a cigarette that soon makes him forget his troubles. She however persuades him into leaving her free. However, he is not so carried away as to neglect his duties; he takes her ring, all 28 carats of it.Teri returns home, to be envied her adventure by her friend Marianne (Helen Vinson). They are frightened to discover that an intruder has broken in and opened her safe. However, they become puzzled and relieved when they find that not only is nothing missing, but the ring has been returned. Marianne departs hastily, anxious to avoid becoming entangled in a scandal. The thief then appears; Teri tries to return the ring, since keeping it would raise uncomfortable questions. When he refuses to take it back, she accuses him of using her to hide out from the police. Then, Detective Fritz (Alan Mowbray) arrives, flushes out the robber, and takes the two into custody.
However, all is not as it seems. It turns out that Fritz is a member of the gang. The thief had used the fake arrest to transport Teri to his house without protest for a night of romance. She is intrigued. Vienna has become too dangerous for him, so he asks her to meet him in
Nice , but she hesitates. Just then, the real police surround the place. He and his gang escape, leaving Teri tied up so as to divert suspicion. After she is "rescued", she decides she needs a vacation away from Vienna to recover from the excitement...in Nice.Cast
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William Powell - The Robber
*Kay Francis - Baroness Teri von Horhenfels
*Helen Vinson - Marianne Horne
*Hardie Albright - Paul, Undersecretary of State
*Alan Mowbray - Fritz
*André Luguet - Count Andre (as Andre Luguet)
*Henry Kolker - Baron Franz von Horhenfels
*Spencer Charters - Johann Christian Lenz, bumbling night watchman
*Lee Kohlmar - Hollander, the jeweler
*Clarence Wilson - Prefect of PoliceResponse
The "
New York Times " review was lukewarm, calling the film a "nervous, brittle comedy",cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/97157/Jewel-Robbery/overview |title=Jewel Robbery (1932) From the Viennese. |publisher="New York Times" |date=July 23 1932 |accessdate=2008-09-09] placing the blame on Kay Francis ("her performance is one in which her usual intelligence and sincerity are strangely absent.").References
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*tcmdb title|id=3476
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