''Mr. Justice Raffles'' is a 1921 British crime film directed by

Gaston Quiribet Gaston Quiribet (1888–1972) was a French film director, cinematographer, and writer. He worked for Hepworth Studios. He used stop motion techniques to achieve cinematographic tricks. At the 2005 British Silent Film Festival, David Williams gav ...

and starring

Gerald Ames Gerald Ames (12 September 1880 – 2 July 1933) was a British actor, film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath, London in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905. He was a popular leading man in the post-First World War cinema ...

Eileen Dennes Eileen Dennes (1 February 1898 – 22 January 1991) was an Irish-born actress of the silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and em ...

and

James Carew James Usselman (February 5, 1876 – April 4, 1938), known professionally as James Carew, was an American actor who appeared in many films, mainly in Britain. He was born in Goshen, Indiana in 1876 and began work as a clerk in a publishing fir ...

. It was based on the 1909 novel ''

Mr. Justice Raffles ''Mr. Justice Raffles'' is a 1909 novel written by E.W. Hornung. It featured his popular character A. J. Raffles a well-known cricketer and gentleman thief. It was the fourth and last in his four Raffles books which had begun with '' The Amate ...

'' by E.W. Hornung featuring his gentleman thief AJ Raffles. The plot changed a number of details from the novel and inserted a romantic interest into the plot which sees Raffles fall in love with Camilla Belsize, while trying to conceal his secret life as a leading cracksman from her.

Cast

as A.J. Raffles *

as Camilla Belsize *

as Dan Levy * Hugh Clifton as Teddy Garland * Lyonel Watts as Bunny *

Gwynne Herbert Gwynne Herbert (11 September 1859 – 17 February 1946) was a British stage and film actress. Partial filmography * ''Liberty Hall'' (1914) * '' The Christian'' (1915) * ''The Firm of Girdlestone'' (1915) * '' The Folly of Desire'' (1915) * '' T ...

as Lady Laura Belsize *

Henry Vibart Henry Vibart (25 December 1863 – 30 August 1943) was a Scottish stage and film actor, active from the 1880s until the early 1930s. He appeared in many theatrical roles in the UK and overseas, and featured in over 70 films of the silent era ...

as Mr. Garland * Peggy Patterson as Dolly Fairfield * Pino Conti as Foreigner * Townsend Whitling as Tough

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1921 films British silent feature films 1921 crime films Films set in London Works based on A. J. Raffles Films based on British novels Hepworth Pictures films British black-and-white films British crime films 1920s British films {{1920s-UK-film-stub