''Mr. Justice Raffles'' is a 1921 British

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by Gaston Quiribet 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. Early life and career Eileen Dennes was born Eileen Amhurst Cowen on 1 February 1898 in Dublin, Ireland. She began on the stage in the early 19 ...

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 working as a clerk in a publishing fi ...

. It was based on the 1909 novel '' Mr. Justice Raffles'' by

E.W. Hornung Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles (character), A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educa ...

featuring his gentleman thief

AJ Raffles A. J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung. Between 1898 and 1909, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about Raffles and his fictional ...

. 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 Shulamite'' (1915) * ''Annie La ...

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 English-language films {{1920s-UK-film-stub