Ajouter une intrigue dans votre languePrison farm escapee Gerard Dennis teams up with Peggy for robberies. After being betrayed and beaten, he meets nurse Martha. Despite her hopes, he continues stealing and flees to LA, where h... Tout lirePrison farm escapee Gerard Dennis teams up with Peggy for robberies. After being betrayed and beaten, he meets nurse Martha. Despite her hopes, he continues stealing and flees to LA, where he targets a wealthy divorcee's social circle.Prison farm escapee Gerard Dennis teams up with Peggy for robberies. After being betrayed and beaten, he meets nurse Martha. Despite her hopes, he continues stealing and flees to LA, where he targets a wealthy divorcee's social circle.
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- Scénario
- Casting principal
Alix Talton
- Brenda Hall
- (as Alice Talton)
Jessie Arnold
- Undetermined Role
- (non crédité)
Lois Austin
- Mrs. Workman
- (non crédité)
Claudia Barrett
- Marian Blaine
- (non crédité)
Rodney Bell
- Man in Elevator
- (non crédité)
Tillie Born
- Maid
- (non crédité)
Margaret Brayton
- Undetermined Role
- (non crédité)
Charles Cane
- Mr. Tom Creel
- (non crédité)
Geraldine Carr
- Mrs. Creel
- (non crédité)
Russ Clark
- Guard
- (non crédité)
Leo Cleary
- Haley
- (non crédité)
Fred Coby
- Tom Colt - Convict
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Canadian thief Gerard Graham Dennis (David Brian) gets turned in by his girlfriend's angry father. He escapes from prison work detail and sneaks across the border. He makes a series of robberies stealing only jewelry and furs. Using many aliases, he charms the ladies and works with criminals. While he breaks into empty homes, he does get violent when the plans go wrong. He keeps moving until he reaches Beverly Hills. The police almost catches him, but he continues to be slippery.
I like the cross-country crime spree aspect and his charms with the ladies. I would like to play up his character's supposed leading man looks. I don't want to hate on David Brian, but this is geared up for a real matinee star playing with some gorgeous ladies. In the end, this is a lower budget affair that is hitting above its weight.
I like the cross-country crime spree aspect and his charms with the ladies. I would like to play up his character's supposed leading man looks. I don't want to hate on David Brian, but this is geared up for a real matinee star playing with some gorgeous ladies. In the end, this is a lower budget affair that is hitting above its weight.
Yep, that is the motto of jewel thief David Brian (Gerry) for any situations that may involve incarceration.
This is the story of real-life gentleman thief Gerald Dennis who burgled the wealthy and the famous and carried out a blitz in Hollywood that included stars such as Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn. When he was caught, police found a list of his next targets that included Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Ginger Rogers and Louis Mayer! He was prolific. I guess he just liked jewels and furs!
The film cracks on at a good pace and Brian is good in the lead role and convincing as a smooth conman who plays on his charms so that women let him into their confidence. We have episodes with five different women in this film, six if you count Cleo Moore as the blonde at the end when he gets caught.
Some people like windows and become window-makers. This guy liked jewels and furs, so he immersed himself in that particular industry. Let's face it, they are expensive!
This is the story of real-life gentleman thief Gerald Dennis who burgled the wealthy and the famous and carried out a blitz in Hollywood that included stars such as Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn. When he was caught, police found a list of his next targets that included Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Ginger Rogers and Louis Mayer! He was prolific. I guess he just liked jewels and furs!
The film cracks on at a good pace and Brian is good in the lead role and convincing as a smooth conman who plays on his charms so that women let him into their confidence. We have episodes with five different women in this film, six if you count Cleo Moore as the blonde at the end when he gets caught.
Some people like windows and become window-makers. This guy liked jewels and furs, so he immersed himself in that particular industry. Let's face it, they are expensive!
Watching The Great Jewel Robber I have to wonder why an A list actor like James
Cagney or Humphrey Bogart didn't grab on to this story. David Brian did a great
job as our protagonist but had either CAgney or Bogart did this one The Great
Jewel Robber would be a classic.
Brian is a professional thief in every sense of the word. Stealing jewels and furs his is a professional attitude. He's one of the best in his trade and would prefer no violence, but is ready if needed. He also would prefer to work alone as you see in this film it's those he trusts are either cowardly, incompetent or treacherous.
Borden Chase best known for westerns Red River and Winchester 73 a couple of favorites of mine wrote the screenplay. Right up to the end Brian proves to be very clever, more lives than a cat. The last chase sequence is well done and well edited for suspense.
A really great product from Warner Brothers B picture unit.
Brian is a professional thief in every sense of the word. Stealing jewels and furs his is a professional attitude. He's one of the best in his trade and would prefer no violence, but is ready if needed. He also would prefer to work alone as you see in this film it's those he trusts are either cowardly, incompetent or treacherous.
Borden Chase best known for westerns Red River and Winchester 73 a couple of favorites of mine wrote the screenplay. Right up to the end Brian proves to be very clever, more lives than a cat. The last chase sequence is well done and well edited for suspense.
A really great product from Warner Brothers B picture unit.
"The Great Jewel Robber" is based on the real life crook, Gerard Dennis. I did a bit of research and Dennis really was a famous jewel thief and at least SOME of what's in the movie is true. However, since he was active in the 1940s, there really isn't much information about him on the internet...so how true the film version of his exploits is, I cannot say.
David Brian was an extremely good actor who's pretty much forgotten today. While apparently a nice guy in real life (who was big on fundraising for the needy), in films he often played wonderfully hardbitten jerks. In this one, however, he's more suave and likable....but clearly he plays a total sociopath! And, when it comes to portraying the life of a career criminal and antisocial personality (the clinical term for a 'sociopath'), Brian and the writers did a terrific job...and they packed a LOT into 91 minutes of film. My daughter kept remarking how the film had enough plot for seven movies! Overall, extremely well made and worth seeing....and also interesting because unlike most films of the era, the cops in this movie are amazingly inept and the criminal is amazingly talented and brilliant in his real-life maneuvers to evade them.
By the way, while this film technically isn't exactly film noir (since it's true and lacks the lighting and cinematography of such a crime film), it's amazingly brutal in spots...particularly when the anti-hero is beating up one of his many ladyfriends.
David Brian was an extremely good actor who's pretty much forgotten today. While apparently a nice guy in real life (who was big on fundraising for the needy), in films he often played wonderfully hardbitten jerks. In this one, however, he's more suave and likable....but clearly he plays a total sociopath! And, when it comes to portraying the life of a career criminal and antisocial personality (the clinical term for a 'sociopath'), Brian and the writers did a terrific job...and they packed a LOT into 91 minutes of film. My daughter kept remarking how the film had enough plot for seven movies! Overall, extremely well made and worth seeing....and also interesting because unlike most films of the era, the cops in this movie are amazingly inept and the criminal is amazingly talented and brilliant in his real-life maneuvers to evade them.
By the way, while this film technically isn't exactly film noir (since it's true and lacks the lighting and cinematography of such a crime film), it's amazingly brutal in spots...particularly when the anti-hero is beating up one of his many ladyfriends.
If I had to describe jewellery thief Gerard Graham Dennis in one word that word would have to be "Shyster". Actor David Brian plays a very convincing thief named Gerard Graham Dennis, a womanizer and shyster who will go to great lengths to get his next fix, his next big score. It is a well done film and actor David Brian is so convincing when he enlists one woman after the next to support his career choice, as a jewel thief, and yet he has no scruples whatsoever leaving each woman behind once he has pulled his last caper. I felt truly sorry for each woman who fell for this shyster as I really thought he was being sincere that he loved each of these woman and he was going to turn his life around, but he deceived me as I am sure he deceived most of his film's audience.
There are some suspensful moments and the cops got close to arresting him and then he would slip through their fingers and handcuffs time and time again. I won't give up the ending and spoil it for you, you will have to see it for yourself.
It is worth an 8 out of 10 rating.
There are some suspensful moments and the cops got close to arresting him and then he would slip through their fingers and handcuffs time and time again. I won't give up the ending and spoil it for you, you will have to see it for yourself.
It is worth an 8 out of 10 rating.
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- AnecdotesLoosely based on the real-life exploits of Gerard Dennis, who stole over $1M worth of jewelry from wealthy homes from 1947 to 1948. He started in Westchester County, New York. After almost being caught there, he moved to the Los Angeles area and began robbing homes in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Brentwood and Bel Air. In 1949 he was sentenced to 18 years to life in Sing Sing prison in New York state.
- Gaffes(at around 21 mins) The amount of plastic explosive affixed to the safe decreases substantially from one edit to the next.
- Bandes originalesGive Me a Song with a Beautiful Melody
(uncredited)
Music by Jule Styne
Played at the party when the police arrive
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- El ladrón fantasma
- Lieux de tournage
- Glendale, Californie, États-Unis(location shooting per AFI Catalog entry for this film)
- Société de production
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- Durée1 heure 31 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1
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