Amateur Crook

Amateur Crook

59 mins | Comedy, Thriller | Dec. 10, 1937

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.

Amateur Crook

59 mins | Comedy, Thriller | Dec. 10, 1937

Amateur Crook
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.
Producers Victory Company
Original title Amateur Crook
Directors Sam Katzman
Writers Basil Dickey

Cast

Bruce Bennett

as Jimmy Baxter

Joan Barclay

as Betsy Cummings, alias Mary Layton

Monte Blue

as Crone

Jack Mulhall

as Jan Jaffin

Vivien Oakland

as Mrs. Flint, Landlady

Jimmy Aubrey

as Ben Armand, Junk Dealer

Fuzzy Knight

as Jape, the Gas-Station Attendant

Henry Roquemore

as Judge Ephraim

Edward Earle

as Deputy Jonas

Forrest Taylor

as Jerry Cummings

Fern Emmett

as Sarah, Ephraim's Wife

Samuel Adams

as Policeman

Charles Williams

as Drunk Witness