Word: cracksman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helmeted and handsome, a London policeman incautiously pauses before a hedge, groans, contorts his face, sinks lifeless to the pavement Europe's most accomplished cracksman, dinner jacketed, cool, emerges from a casement window, catches sight of the officer still weltering bloodily on the hedge, hurries away, slightly ruffied by the event. Scotland Yard at last has a clew; if they find the cracksman who stole the $256,000 dollar diamond, they feel certain they will have the maniac swordsman who stuck the policeman from behind the hedge, who had killed four other police in almost as many nights...
Innocent of violent crime, the cracksman (Robert Montgomery) finds himself embarrassed by the possession of the pilfered jewel, refuses the entreaties of his accomplices to chuck it in the Thames instead he rescues the finance of Scotland Yard's commissioner's daughter from the charge of being Mr. X, falls in love with the daughter, attracts the attention and suspicion of the sleuths...
Betrayed by a henchman, the suave cracksman is beset by the police who search for X. How can he protect himself? He must find X, he cannily reasons. Moreover, if he finds X, he will be in a most strategic position to give up his evil ways and claim the boon of love which he had already won from the Commissioner's daughter...
Madame Racketeer (Paramount) is a female version of Cracksman Jimmy Valentine in the small town. Alison Skipworth is the grizzled old grifter with formidable dimples. She is the long-forgotten wife of a provincial hotelkeeper (Richard Bennett) and the mother of his two daughters. A rolling stone, she comes back to the starting line for moss, incognito except to her husband. But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked...