Jim la houlette, roi des voleurs (1926)

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Country: France
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1927-04-28
Director: Pierre Colombier , Roger Lion , Nicolas Rimsky
Writers: Jean Guitton , Michel Linsky , Raoul Ploquin
Language: French | English
Stars: Nicolas Rimsky , Gaby Morlay , Louis Vonelly , Camille Bardou , Gil Clary , Madame Sylviac , Jules Moy , Roger Lion , Léon Courtois , Irma Gray
Runtime: 77 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Jim the Cracksman (United Kingdom) , Jim la houlette, roi des voleurs (France, French Republic) , Jim, Rei dos Gatunos (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Jim, La Houlette - Rei dos Ladrões (Brazil) , Tyvenes Konge (Denmark) , Plumitas, a tolvajok királya (Hungary) , Jim la houlette, roi des voleurs , Jim the Cracksman, the King of Thieves (United States of America)
Plot: Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy, Bretonneau's publisher, has an idea : to simulate the theft of a manuscript by Jim la houlette, in fact by Moluchet posing as the criminal. But Moluchet, confronted by the real Jim, lets him run away and is arrested...
IMDB:tt0194060