Light Fingers

Light Fingers (1929)

Here is the thriller of the year- just the right combination of daring crook exploits and romance.

"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.

Date of release
1929-07-29
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Joseph Henabery

Casting

Interesting facts

Light Fingers is a 1929 American sound all-talking pre-Code sound drama film directed by Joseph Henabery. The audio was recorded via the Western Electric sound-on-film process. The film was produced by Harry Cohn for Columbia Pictures.

Production

Production for Light Fingers began by Columbia Pictures on June 3, 1929. Antonio Moreno was first booked to play the leading male role, but due to a schedule conflict with a different production he was in, Moreno was replaced by Ian Keith.

John Francis Natteford wrote the screenplay. He stated that the title character was based on a criminal that Natteford encountered when he worked as a court reporter for a New York newspaper. Before the release of the film, various newspapers stated that the title character was adapted from the stage play, Raffles, which included John Barrymore as the lead.

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