Amateur Crook
5.2
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.
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Cast
13 people
Bruce Bennett
Jimmy Baxter
Known for
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dark Passage
Joan Barclay
Betsy Cummings, alias Mary Layton
Known for
The Corpse Vanishes
Monte Blue
Crone
Known for
Key Largo
Orphans of the Storm
Jack Mulhall
Jan Jaffin
Known for
Black Friday
Invisible Ghost
Vivien Oakland
Mrs. Flint, Landlady
Known for
Way Out West
Scram!
Jimmy Aubrey
Ben Armand, Junk Dealer
Also in
The Meeting
Worries and Wobbles
Fuzzy Knight
Jape, the Gas-Station Attendant
Known for
She Done Him Wrong
The Shepherd of the Hills
Henry Roquemore
Judge Ephraim
Also in
Texas Terror
Assassin of Youth
Edward Earle
Deputy Jonas
Known for
The Wind
Spite Marriage
Forrest Taylor
Jerry Cummings
Known for
The Spoilers
Fern Emmett
Sarah, Ephraim's Wife
Known for
The Shepherd of the Hills
Samuel Adams
Policeman
Known for
Dirty Work
Sam Katzman Director · Basil Dickey Screenplay William Hyer Cinematographer
United States release December 10, 1937 · Produced in United States
Production
Victory Company
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 10, 1937
Theatrical
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