Adventure in Manhattan

October. 08,1936      NR
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.

Jean Arthur as  Claire Peyton
Joel McCrea as  George Melville
Reginald Owen as  Blackton Gregory
Thomas Mitchell as  Phil Bane
Victor Kilian as  Mark Gibbs
John Gallaudet as  McGuire
Emmett Vogan as  Lorimer
George Cooper as  Duncan
Herman Bing as  Otto
Robert Warwick as  Phillip Rupert

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