Raffles is a feature length

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 starring House Peters

House Peters, Sr.

Robert House Peters, Sr. was a British-born American silent film actor, known to moviegoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions."-Biography:...

, Miss DuPont

Miss DuPont

Miss DuPont was an American film actress and fashion designer. Sometimes credited as Patty DuPont, she was born Patricia Hannon in Frankfort, Kentucky, though sources sometimes state her place of birth as Frankfort, Indiana...

, Hedda Hopper

Hedda Hopper

Hedda Hopper was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns.-Early life:...

, Fred Esmelton

Fred Esmelton

Fred Esmelton , was an American film actor. He appeared in 30 films between years 1916 and 1931.He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

 and Walter Long

Walter Long (actor)

Walter Huntley Long was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.-Career:He appeared in many D. W...

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The film was directed by King Baggot

King Baggot

William King Baggot was an American actor, director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent era...

 and produced by Carl Laemmle

Carl Laemmle

Carl Laemmle , born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios - Universal...

's Universal Pictures

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, with a screenplay adapted by Harvey F. Thew from the play by Eugene W. Presbrey and the novel by E. W. Hornung

Ernest William Hornung

Ernest William Hornung , known as Willie, was an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London....

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Synopsis

Raffles

A. J. Raffles

Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes — he is a "gentleman thief," living in the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing...

 (House Peters) is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman". While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners (Freeman Wood), it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.

Lord Amersteth (Winter Hall) and his wife, Lady Amersteth (Kate Lester), are having a party at their home and Raffles attends. Another guest, noted criminologist Captain Bedford (Fred Esmelton), makes the assertion that a very valuable string of pearls cannot be stolen. Encouraged by this, Raffles steals it.

He has also stolen the heart of Gwendolyn Amersteth (Miss DuPont), the daughter of his hosts. Capt. Bedford finally captures him, but he escapes with Gwendolyn's help and they run away to be married. Raffles returns the pearls and promises to retire from being a burglar.

Cast

• House Peters
  House Peters, Sr.
  Robert House Peters, Sr. was a British-born American silent film actor, known to moviegoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions."-Biography:...
  
   as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
• Miss DuPont
  Miss DuPont
  Miss DuPont was an American film actress and fashion designer. Sometimes credited as Patty DuPont, she was born Patricia Hannon in Frankfort, Kentucky, though sources sometimes state her place of birth as Frankfort, Indiana...
  
   as Gwendolyn Amersteth
• Hedda Hopper
  Hedda Hopper
  Hedda Hopper was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns.-Early life:...
  
   as Mrs. Clarice Vidal
• Fred Esmelton
  Fred Esmelton
  Fred Esmelton , was an American film actor. He appeared in 30 films between years 1916 and 1931.He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Capt. Bedford
• Walter Long
  Walter Long (actor)
  Walter Huntley Long was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.-Career:He appeared in many D. W...
  
   as Crawshay
• Winter Hall
  Winter Hall
  Winter Hall was a New Zealand actor of the silent era. He appeared in 127 films between 1916 and 1938.He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Lord Amersteth
• Kate Lester
  Kate Lester
  Kate Lester born Sarah Cody was an English theatrical and silent film actress born in Shouldham Thorpe, Norfolk, England. Her family, the Suydams of New York, were staying in England at the time of her birth....
  
   as Lady Amersteth
• Freeman Wood as Bunny Manners
• Roland Bottomley as Lord Crowley
• Lillian Langdon
  Lillian Langdon
  Lillian Langdon was a New Jersey-born American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 86 films between 1912 and 1928.She died in Santa Monica, California, aged 82.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Mrs. Tilliston
• Robert Bolder
  Robert Bolder
  Robert Bolder was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 99 films between 1912 and 1936.He was born in London and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* His New Job...
  
   as Mr. Tilliston

External links

• Raffles at the Internet Movie Database
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• poster for the 1925 version of Raffles