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Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Directed by Edward Ludwig
“THE GAL WHO TOOK MR. DEEDS TO TOWN STEPS OUT AGAIN... This time with handsome Joel McCrea...in the year's merriest melee of mirth!”
Mystery, Comedy, Crime, Drama · 1h 13m
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.
Cast
Jean Arthur
Claire Peyton
Joel McCrea
George Melville
Reginald Owen
Blackton Gregory
Thomas Mitchell
Phil Bane
Victor Kilian
Mark Gibbs
John Gallaudet
McGuire
Emmett Vogan
Lorimer
George Cooper
Duncan
Herman Bing
Otto
Robert Warwick
Phillip Rupert
Bess Flowers
Miss Arnold - Beauty Salon Attendant (uncredited)
John Eldredge
Tommy - Actor in Play (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Edward Ludwig
- Screenplay
- Harry Sauber, Sidney Buchman, Jack Kirkland
- Director of Photography
- Henry Freulich
- Editor
- Otto Meyer
- Producer
- Everett Riskin
Details
- Release date
- 1936-10-08
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Genres
- Mystery, Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures