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The Solitaire Man is a american film of genre Crime directed by Jack Conway released in USA on 22 september 1933 with Herbert Marshall
The Solitaire Man (1933)
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Add to a movie listThe Solitaire Man is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Jack Conway, starring Herbert Marshall and Mary Boland.
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After a job in Monte Carlo, an English jewel theft ring returns to Paris. Suave cat burglar Oliver Lane (Herbert Marshall), fashioned the "Solitaire Man" in the newspapers after seven years of eluding Scotland Yard, proposes marriage to his lovely accomplice Helen (Elizabeth Allan) and informs her he has bought a country house in Devonshire to which they can all retire. However unstable Robert Bascom (Ralph Forbes), drug-addicted after his experiences in the World War, also loves Helen and wants to continue on his own. He presents Oliver with the "Brewster necklace" that he burgled from the British Embassy while he dined there with his former colonel. Realizing Bascom would be the only suspect and his arrest would lead back to all of them, Oliver returns the Brewster necklace to the safe just as an inspector from Scotland Yard tracking the Solitaire Man arrives at the embassy. Before Oliver can make his escape, a second man sneaks in and steals the necklace but is interrupted by the inspector, who recognizes the thief but is shot and killed by him. Oliver struggles in the dark with the killer during his getaway and grabs the necklace and part of the killer's watch chain.Actors
Herbert Marshall
(Oliver Lane)
Mary Boland
(Mrs. Zelma Hopkins)
Lionel Atwill
(Inspector Wallace)
May Robson
(Mrs. Vail)
Elizabeth Allan
(Helen Hemming)
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