Jump for Glory

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Jump for Glory
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Produced by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Marcel Hellman
Written by Gordon McDonnell (novel)
John Meehan Jr.
Harold French
Starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Valerie Hobson
Alan Hale
Jack Melford
Music by Percival Mackey
Cinematography Victor Arménise
Edited by Conrad von Molo
Production
company
Criterion Films
Distributed by United Artists
Release dates
5 March 1937
Running time
85 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Jump for Glory is a 1937 British romantic drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Valerie Hobson and Alan Hale. It was based on a novel by Gordon McDonnell.

Synopsis

Rick Morgan, an American involved in the bootlegging trade, is forced to relocate to Britain where he becomes one of the top cat burglars in London. One night while breaking into a house he runs into the daughter of its occupant Glory Fane and they soon fall in love. However, one of Morgan's old associates from the United States, now masquerading as a respectable member of British society, threatens to wreck his chances of going straight and finding happiness with Glory.

Cast

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .

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