Positively skips along at outset due to very brisk direction and editing (Sherman Todd).
Detective Dudley Digges is on to our amateur cracksman David Niven rather quickly: wily cat and mouse ensues involving a somewhat underwritten Olivia de Havilland (her brother Douglas Walton even moreso). Dame May Whitty loses her jewels, Lionel Pape is her husband, E.E. Clive one in a long line of Hollywood butlers, Peter Godfrey the burglar who ends up respecting the gentleman thief.
Written by John van Druten and Sidney Howard, based on E.W. Hornung's novel 'The Amateur Cracksman'. A Sam Goldwyn production, shot by Gregg Toland in a back-projected London.
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