Raffles

TCM fan Rowan Tucker-Meyer joins Ben Mankiewicz for an introduction and comments following Raffles, 1939.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Raffles, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Raffles, 1939.

TCM's Robert Osborne offers this tribute to his longtime friend, TCM's Star Of The Month for July, 2016, Olivia de Havilland.

Inspector McKenzie (Dudley Digges) meets David Niven, the society-thief title character, known best as a cricket player for England, introduced by his host Lord Melrose (Lionel Pape) who mis-remembers who’s been given his new phone number, early in Samuel Goldwyn’s re-make, Raffles, 1939.

The end of the jewel robbery, in which David Niven, the gentleman-thief, cricket-star title character is barely seen, then we meet Bunny (Douglas Watson), Olivia De Havilland as sister Gwen, the love interest, then Lady and Lord Melrose (Dame May Whitty, Lionel Pape), in Samuel Goldwyn’s Raffles, 1939.