Film
Adventure in Manhattan
United States- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- Edward Ludwig
- Year
- 1936
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!
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.
Top 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)
Theodore von Eltz
John Ridley - Henchman (uncredited)
Arthur Rankin
Blackton's Secretary (uncredited)
Wedgwood Nowell
Henchman on Telephone (uncredited)
Robert Fiske
Dario - Henchman (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Jef - Henchman (uncredited)
Directed by
Edward Ludwig
Written by
Harry Sauber, Joseph Krumgold, Jack Kirkland, Sidney Buchman
Produced by
Everett Riskin
