Raffles

Screen Director's Playhouse, Star Douglas Fairbanks, Production, Raffles. This is the Screen Director's Playhouse. One of the weekly features on NBC's All-Star Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery, and Drama. Tonight's Screen Director's Playhouse presents one of the all-time favorite mystery figures, Raffles, starring Douglas Fairbanks.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, here's the first act of Raffles. The amateur crime robs, famous mainsick and re-all about it, amateur crime for daddy the guy!

I am the so-called notorious amateur craxman. My name? Well, not naturally, for the years of Scotland Yard. A.J. Raffles. What is crime? What is... What motivates crime? What makes me a criminal? Read selfishness, perhaps?

The spirit of adventure? Very definitely. loyalty to a friend in need, ever. And then, as in the case of the missing Medici Venus, purely sentiment. Sir Wilkford, this lady claims to have the missing Venus.

Mmm? What's that you saying, Inspector McKenzie? Here it is, Inspector. Where did you get it? It just came in the post in the ordinary way. I opened the parcel and there it was, and this card was with it.

Mmm. I saw your farewell performance when I was a boy. I've never forgotten it. Would you return this painting to dear old Scotland Yard for me? Hmm. I understand there's a reward of it. So your lord Holden, the actress.

Well, I used to be. You have no idea why. They should have been sent to you. No, none at all. Except as he says that he remembers me. When was your farewell performance, Miss Holden?

Oh, 20 years ago, 1931. Well, if I might be personal, might I inquire you are a financial status? Well, to be perfectly honest, since I retired from the stage, I have been a little straightened.