Jewel Robbery


Jewel Robbery is a 1932 American PreCode comedymystery film, directed by William Dieterle and starring William Powell and Kay Francis. It is based on the 1931 Hungarian play Ekszerrabls a Vciuccban by Ladislas Fodor and its subsequent English adaptation, Jewel Robbery by Bertram Bloch.

Teri returns home, to be envied her adventure by her friend Marianne Helen Vinson. They are frightened to discover that an intruder has broken in and opened her safe. However, they become puzzled and relieved when they find that not only is nothing missing, but the ring has been returned. Marianne departs hastily, anxious to avoid becoming entangled in a scandal. The thief then appears Teri tries to return the ring, since keeping it would raise uncomfortable questions. When he refuses to take it back, she accuses him of using her to hide out from the police. Then, Detective Fritz Alan Mowbray arrives, flushes out the robber, and takes the two into custody.However, all is not as it seems. It turns out that Fritz is a member of the gang. The thief had used the fake arrest to transport Teri to his house without protest for a night of romance. She is intrigued. Vienna has become too dangerous for him, so he asks her to meet him in Nice, but she hesitates. Just then, the real police surround the place. He and his gang escape, leaving Teri tied up so as to divert suspicion. After she is rescued, she decides she needs a vacation away from Vienna to recover from the excitement... in Nice. ........

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