Studio: Warner Home Video Cast. No more smart cops in movies, cinema needs to be more grounded in reality than that.This 1932 movie stars William Powell, Kay Francis, and Helen Vinson among others.
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Cast and crew. Find movie and film cast and crew information for Jewel Robbery (1932) - William Dieterle on AllMovie Kay Francis.
And that's one of the reasons to love this film. Alan Mowbray …. It was directed by William Dieterle and based on a story by Ladislas Fodor.Powell plays a jewel thief in Vienna.
Stars: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh… Art Director Marianne Horne. (Or William Powell's gentleman thief excites Kay Francis' bored, married, noblewoman but possibly not as much as the jewels he has stolen do.Powell is by far the best thing in it, just seeming like the only member of the cast who understood what talkies could be, stylised but not so over enunciated as to seem cartoonish underplaying at times, amused with his own career and challenging the audience to 'get it' rather than begging their approval. Additional information. A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
Screenwriter Another odd aspect of this unusual film is that Powell gives his victims marijuana cigarettes to smoke, to make them passive and jovial.
I will never understand the engineering that went on to keep that dress up - it looked heavy too!MGM brought the ritzy. Author Was this review helpful to you? Being forced to listen to people around you screaming of laughter so loudly that you can't even hear the…So much fun, just a breakneck 67 minutes packed with sex, drugs, and robbery classed the fuck up by William Powell and Kay Francis. Francis is sexy and constantly framed so as to appear naked and she does an amazing line in greedy or lusty glee even if she doesn't get this new thing of sound anywhere near as well as Powell.Elegantly silly! Make him debonair, a menswear connoisseur, with a thin moustache and a boutonniere. any…This is the US schedule, but the Canadian schedule should be similar except for a handful of movies.
Certificate: Passed One day, at an exclusive jewel shop to purchase a diamond ring, her tedium is lifted by a suave, charming thief (William Powell) and his gang. Cast and crew credits for Jewel Robbery, 1932, directed by William Dieterle, with William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, at Turner Classic Movies The movie is worth watching for that alone. i Checked! Berta the Maid Use the HTML below. so many sparks fly between bill and kay that it’s amazing they didn’t burn their luxury apartments to the ground.
William Powell Kay Francis Helen Vinson Hardie Albright Alan Mowbray André Luguet Henry Kolker Spencer Charters Lee Kohlmar Clarence Wilson.
I will never understand the engineering that went on to keep that dress up - it looked heavy too!So, so delightful. Helen Vinson. Alpine Tourist 6 Paul, Undersecretary of State. There's no effort to conceal faces, the robbery crew addresses each other by first name, Powell plays soothing music and engages in witty banter with those he's robbing, but nonetheless it's very entertaining to watch. The Robber. Jewel Robbery (1932) Cast and Crew Baroness Teri von Horhenfels (Kay Francis) deals with the tedium of her aristocratic life in Vienna with a long line of lovers. That and Francis always undressing or wearing a dress that should have slipped off at any movement.Because I live in the greatest city on the planet, I have been fortunate enough to see this under-appreciated gem twice at two different theaters. Certificate: Passed )William Powell is the center stage here, suave and charming, witty and clever, and more than a little horny. Also Powell does his best Burt Lancaster 15 years before Burt Lancaster.The polite jewel robber moralizing to the bankers is good and correct.A return to the dumbass pothead cop archetype is the reaction I hope the industry has to its reckoning with copaganda. What else do you want from a pre-Code comedy apart from raunch up the yin yang? The Robber
“The same may be said for Kay Francis as the beautiful but bored and eccentric wife of an elderly banker.” Jewel Robbery was a tremendous hit with critics and audiences in the summer of 1932. William Powell and his gang pull-off a well executed jewel heist, where once again Powell falls for Kay Francis, a lady who is bored but married to money.