Lord Jeff (1938)

Directors

Sam Wood

Cast

Charles Coburn, Charles Irwin, Emma Dunn, Freddie Bartholomew, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Gilbert Emery, Herbert Mundin, John Burton, Matthew Boulton, Mickey Rooney, Monty Woolley, Peter Lawford, Walter Kingsford

The story

Young orphan "Lord" Geoffrey Braemer poses as an English aristocrat for con artists Jim Hampsteadand Doris Clandon, who assumed care of him when his parents were killed in a train wreck. He fakes fainting in a jewelry store, distracting the employees and allowing Jim to steal a valuable necklace. However, an astute insurance investigator catches him and Geoff is sent to Russell-Cotes, a mercantile marine school, and is warned that if he does not behave, he will be transferred to a reformatory.

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