Raffles Double Feature

Raffles Double FeatureMeet A. J. Raffles, a charming English cricketer who hobnobs by day with British society, but robs them at night as a gentleman thief. First published in 1898 as a series of short stories, Raffles soon became one of the most popular fictional characters of his time. Adapted to the stage as Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman, the play was filmed twice during the silent era before Samuel Goldwyn acquired it as a sound vehicle for Ronald Colman. An Oscar

Actor-writer-director Peter Ustinov brings his eccentric comic genius to Romain Gary's popular novel of rogues

When they finally land in London

John Alexander hires on for the anonymity and toil of an oil field roughneck

The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma

Owen is pressured to support his Confederate brothers

Come along on a fantastic journey with the first European to visit China

Powerful film received an Oscar-nomination for Original Story

The star of a third-rate theatrical troupe in Miami catches the attention of a Broadway songwriter

"You must stay between him and me always

the film also boasts a 24-carat cast: Dirk Bogarde as the philandering artist

whose Cimarron and The Conquerors make him no stranger to tales of historic sweep

believing that a life of prostitution would be better for Selina than happiness with a Black man