Amateur Crook

Amateur Crook — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 10, 1937
• Runtime
• 59 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Thriller
• Director
• Sam Katzman

Amateur Crook — Cast

Bruce Bennett Jimmy Baxter Joan Barclay Betsy Cummings, alias Mary Layton Monte Blue Crone Jack Mulhall Jan Jaffin Vivien Oakland Mrs. Flint, Landlady Jimmy Aubrey Ben Armand, Junk Dealer Fuzzy Knight Jape, the Gas-Station Attendant

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Henry Roquemore Judge Ephraim