---
title: 'Raffles (1930)'
type: 'film'
director: 'George Fitzmaurice'
released: '1930-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 72
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/raffles-1930'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021281/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Raffles (1930)

1930 · 72 min · Drama, Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Raffles is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It stars Ronald Colman as the title character, a proper English gentleman who moonlights as a notorious jewel thief, and Kay Francis as his love interest. It is based on the play Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1906) by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which was in turn adapted from the 1899 short story collection of the same name by Hornung.

## Credits

- **Director:** [George Fitzmaurice](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-fitzmaurice)
- **Screenplay:** [Sidney Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-howard)
- **Producer:** [Samuel Goldwyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-goldwyn)
- **Director of Photography:** [Gregg Toland](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregg-toland), [George Barnes](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-barnes)
- **Editor:** [Stuart Heisler](https://cinepixo.com/people/stuart-heisler)

## Cast

- [Frederick Kerr](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-kerr)
- [David Torrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-torrence)
- [Virginia Bruce](https://cinepixo.com/people/virginia-bruce)
- [Kay Francis](https://cinepixo.com/people/kay-francis)
- [Ronald Colman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-colman)
- [Alison Skipworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/alison-skipworth)
- [Bramwell Fletcher](https://cinepixo.com/people/bramwell-fletcher)

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