- Raffles (1939 film)
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name = Raffles
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director =Sam Wood
producer =Samuel Goldwyn
writer =E. W. Hornung (novel)John Van Druten Sidney Howard
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starring =David Niven Olivia de Havilland
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released =December 29 1939
runtime = 72 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0032963"Raffles" is a 1939 film starring
David Niven andOlivia de Havilland . It is one of several film adaptations of an 1899 novel byE. 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. [cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/title.jsp?stid=87567 |title=Notes for Raffles (1939) |publisher=tcm.com |accessdate=2007-11-26]Cast
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David Niven asA. J. Raffles
*Olivia de Havilland as Gwen Manders
*DameMay Whitty as Lady Kitty Melrose
*Dudley Digges asInspector Mackenzie
*Douglas Walton asBunny Manders
*E.E. Clive as Barraclough
*Lionel Pape as Lord George Melrose
*Peter Godfrey as Harry CrawshayReferences
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*tcmdb title|id=87567|title=Raffles
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