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Adventure in Manhattan

5.8 73 mins Mystery   Comedy   Crime   Drama   1936
Columbia Pictures  
Director(s): Edward Ludwig

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.

Casts of Adventure in Manhattan

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

Bess Flowers

as Miss Arnold - Beauty Salon Attendant (uncredited)

John Eldredge

as Tommy - Actor in Play (uncredited)

Theodore von Eltz

as John Ridley - Henchman (uncredited)

Arthur Rankin

as Blackton's Secretary (uncredited)

Wedgwood Nowell

as Henchman on Telephone (uncredited)

Robert Fiske

as Dario - Henchman (uncredited)

Edward Earle

as Jef - Henchman (uncredited)

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