Movielogr
Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 73 minutes
Actors
Jean Arthur | Joel McCrea | Reginald Owen | Thomas Mitchell | Victor Kilian | John Gallaudet | Emmett Vogan | George Cooper | Herman Bing | Robert Warwick | Bess Flowers | John Eldredge | Theodore von Eltz | Arthur Rankin | Wedgwood Nowell | Robert Fiske | Edward Earle