Raffles (1958 film)

Raffles (Spanish Raffles mexicano) is a 1958 Mexican crime film directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Rafael Bertrand, María Duval and Prudencia Grifell.[1] The film is based on E.W. Hornung books about the British gentleman thief A.J. Raffles, who is portrayed here as a Mexican. The film appears to be lost.

Raffles
Directed byAlejandro Galindo
Written byAlejandro Galindo
Based onThe Amateur Cracksman
1899 novel
by E. W. Hornung
Eugene Wiley Presbrey (1906 play)
Produced byAlfredo Ripstein hijo
César Santos Galindo
StarringRafael Bertrand
María Duval
Prudencia Grifell
CinematographyRaúl Martínez Solares
Edited byCharles L. Kimball
Music byGustavo César Carrión
Production
company
Alameda Films
Distributed byAlameda Films
Release date
10 October 1958
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

The film's sets were designed by the art director Gunther Gerszo.

Plot summary

Cast

References

  1. Hardy p.284

Bibliography

  • Hardy, Phil. The BFI Companion to Crime. A&C Black, 1997.


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