Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
"THE GAL WHO TOOK MR. DEEDS TO TOWN STEPS OUT AGAIN... This time with handsome Joel McCrea...in the year's merriest melee of mirth!"

Title: Adventure in Manhattan
Original Title: Adventure in Manhattan
Release Date: 1936-10-08
Status: Released
Rating: 5.8/10 (from 13 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Mystery, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Production Companies: Columbia Pictures
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
Cast

Jean Arthur
Claire Peyton

Joel McCrea
George Melville

Reginald Owen
Blackton Gregory

Thomas Mitchell
Phil Bane

Victor Kilian
Mark Gibbs

John Gallaudet
McGuire

Emmett Vogan
Lorimer

George Cooper
Duncan

Herman Bing
Otto

Robert Warwick
Phillip Rupert