Adventure in Manhattan (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!
73 min
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.
- Release date
- October 8, 1936
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Jean Arthur as Claire Peyton
- Joel McCrea as George Melville
- Reginald Owen as Blackton Gregory
- Thomas Mitchell as Phil Bane
- Victor Kilian as Mark Gibbs
- John Gallaudet as McGuire
- Emmett Vogan as Lorimer
- George Cooper as Duncan
- Herman Bing as Otto
- Robert Warwick as Phillip
Crew
- Edward Ludwig · Director
- Sidney Buchman · Writer
- Harry Sauber · Writer
- Jack Kirkland · Writer
- Joseph Krumgold · Writer
- Henry Freulich · Cinematographer
- Otto Meyer · Editor