Raffles

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Steve D Entertaining crime caper with good cast. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/24 Full Review j f Cracking 6's by day and safes by night? This should be the new Bond franchise, staring Chris Gayle. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/20/23 Full Review Louisa E This was a good, fun movie. I was interested in the plot, even if the pace was a little slow at times. The ending was great, and it was well done overall. The acting was superb by everyone too. Ronald Colman is excellent. He is the first star that I didn't know before this journey that I feel is underrated. He is Gable-esque but with a hint of Britishness that I just adore. This movie still holds its own today. There was one scene that must have been captured on the sped-up silent film stuff because it looked weird and out-of-kilter with the rest of the movie, but it was a good watch. If People magazine had a Sexist Man competition back then, my nomination would be for Ronald. Worth a watch. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/09/23 Full Review Jon C Entertaining and atmospheric Ronald Coleman film A. J. Raffles, "the amateur cracksman," was a fictional English gentleman safecracker invented by E. W. Hornung in a series of stories beginning in 1898 as a sort of mirror image of Sherlock Holmes. Like Holmes, Raffles is a suave, upper-class intellectual involved with the underworld, but Raffles's involvement is on the wrong side of the law: he supports his upper-class lifestyle by his career as a jewellry thief. The Raffles stories were extremely popular and have been the subject of many film, theater, and television treatments. One of the best of these is this 1930, very early talkie starring cinema's quintessential English gentleman, Ronald Coleman. It's really quite a good film for its time, with an intelligent script, generally good acting (especially by Coleman and character actor Frederick Kerr, better known as Baron Frankenstein in James Whale's famous 1931 treatment of the monster story, who steals every scene he is in as a grouchy English lord.) Co-cinematographer Gregg Toland, who later worked on many Hollywood classics, is presumably responsible for the film's noirish, atmospheric lighting effects. All in all, I'd say this entertaining film will still be enjoyed by today's audiences, and is a must see for fans of Coleman. This review is based on the Warner Archives DVD (which includes a later remake of substantially the same story starring David Niven, which I haven't seen.) The image is a good transfer of a decentish, though somewhat streaky, original print. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/07/16 Full Review Audience Member #3- good version of this i guess its true 3rd time is a charm Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member I am finding it very difficult to uncover good films from the year of 1930. "Raffles" is another boring movie from the beginning of the 1930's. The plot surrounds a mansion were it is expected that several crooks are about to pull off robbery of the home's safe. I have seen films, as recent as yesterday, that seem shorter within the first 20 minutes than the entirity of this movie (and it's only 70 minutes). I don't understand this, because the Best Picture of that year "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a great film. Very boring movie! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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