Amateur Crook
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- Runtime
- 59 mins
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Cast
- Bruce Bennett
- Joan Barclay
- Monte Blue
- Jack Mulhall
- Vivien Oakland
- Jimmy Aubrey
- Fuzzy Knight
- Henry Roquemore
- Edward Earle
- Forrest Taylor
- Fern Emmett
- Samuel Adams
- Charles Williams
Director
- Sam Katzman
Producers
- Sam Katzman
Screenwriter
- Basil Dickey