Adventure in Manhattan

Oct 8, 1936

1h 13m

★ 5.8

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!

Overview

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.

Genres

Mystery

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Claire Peyton

Jean Arthur

George Melville

Joel McCrea

Blackton Gregory

Reginald Owen

Phil Bane

Thomas Mitchell

Mark Gibbs

Victor Kilian

McGuire

John Gallaudet

Lorimer

Emmett Vogan

Duncan

George Cooper

Otto

Herman Bing

Phillip Rupert

Robert Warwick

Miss Arnold - Beauty Salon Attendant (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Tommy - Actor in Play (uncredited)

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