
Amateur Crook
Comedy
Thriller
1 / 10
December 10, 1937
0h 59m
Director: Sam Katzman
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.
Cast

Bruce Bennett
Jimmy Baxter

Joan Barclay
Betsy Cummings, alias Mary Layton

Monte Blue
Crone

Jack Mulhall
Jan Jaffin

Vivien Oakland
Mrs. Flint, Landlady

Jimmy Aubrey
Ben Armand, Junk Dealer

Fuzzy Knight
Jape, the Gas-Station Attendant
Henry Roquemore
Judge Ephraim

Edward Earle
Deputy Jonas

Forrest Taylor
Jerry Cummings

Fern Emmett
Sarah, Ephraim's Wife

Samuel Adams
Policeman