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Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)

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Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)

Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5600 kbps, 5300 kbps | 7.9Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Full time: 165 minutes | USA | Mystery, Romance

Crime pays handsomely in this smart and stylish double feature based on the adventures of Arsene Lupin, fiction’s most famous gentleman thief. John and Lionel Barrymore “make a marvelous team in their first film together” in the risque Pre-Code mystery Arsene Lupin (1932), costarring Karen Morley. A wily police detective matches wits with France's greatest criminal as the notorious thief attempts to make good on his threat to steal the Mona Lisa.
Melvyn Douglas “is a delight” in the witty sequel Arsene Lupin Returns (1938), co-starring Virginia Bruce and Warren William. Having faked his own death, Lupin (Douglas) Claims he’s retired and assumes the role of a gentleman farmer. But when a series of robberies suggests that the thief is still alive, an insurance detective (Warren William) attempts to track him down, convinced of Lupin‘s guilt.

Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)

Arsene Lupin (1932)
NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5600 kbps
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:24:00 | USA | Mystery, Romance


Director: Jack Conway
Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, John Miljan, Tully Marshall, Henry Armetta, George Davis, John Davidson, James T. Mack, Mary Jane Irving, Mischa Auer, Symona Boniface, Jack Byron, Jack Deery, Claire Du Brey, Geraldine Dvorak, Christian J. Frank, Sam Harris, Olaf Hytten, Carl M. Leviness, Theodore Lorch, Frank McClure, King Mojave, Claude Payton, Albert Petit, Georges Renavent, Henry Roquemore, Milton Royce, Hector Sarno, Joe Sawyer

Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)


Crime pays handsomely in this smart and stylish double feature based on the adventures of Arsene Lupin, fiction’s most famous gentleman thief. john and Lionel Barrymore “make a marvelous team in their first film together” (Leonard Maltin ‘s Classic Movie Guide) in the risque Pre-Code mystery Arséne Lupin (1932), costarring Karen Morley. A wily police detective matches wits with France's greatest criminal as the notorious thief attempts to make good on his threat to steal the Mona Lisa.

Melvyn Douglas “is a delight” in the witty sequel Arséne Lupin Returns (1938), co-starring Virginia Bruce and Warren William. Having faked his own death, Lupin (Douglas) Claims he’s retired and assumes the role of a gentleman farmer. But when a series of robberies suggests that the thief is still alive, an insurance detective (Warren William) attempts to track him down. convinced of Lupin‘s guilt.

Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)


John Barrymore plays a burglar and his brother Lionel Barrymore is the detective trying to catch him in this cleverly cast drama. An upscale thief who works under the name of Arsene Lupin is making the rounds of the homes of the wealthy and privileged, and Detective Guerchard (Lionel Barrymore) is determined to track him down. What he doesn't know is that the suave and sophisticated Duke of Charmerace (John Barrymore) is actually the man behind the robberies. Will Guerchard find out the thief's true identity before he can execute a daring theft from the Louvre Museum? Karen Morely co-stars as Sonia, the Duke's love interest.
~ Mark Deming, Rovi

IMDb

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Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)

Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5300 kbps
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:21:00 | USA | Mystery


Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, Monty Woolley, E.E. Clive, George Zucco, Rollo Lloyd, Vladimir Sokoloff, Ian Wolfe, Tully Marshall, Jonathan Hale, King Baggot, William Bailey, Edward Biby, Sidney Bracey, Egon Brecher, Harvey Clark, Chester Clute, Sidney D'Albrook, George Davis, Frank Dawson, Helen Dickson, George Douglas, Jay Eaton, Stanley Fields, Christian J. Frank, Otto Fries, John Harmon

Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)


After earning the title of "The King of Pre-Code" as a suave yet lusty leading man at Warner Bros. before the motion picture industry's Production Code went into effect, Warren William switched to Paramount, then M-G-M, in the tamer days of the late 1930s. His star was fading with the new respectability in films, although he did manage to find a good vehicle at M-G-M with Arséne Lupin Returns (1938), one of many dramatizations featuring the fictional French jewel thief created by Maurice Leblanc in his 1909 novel.

Specifically, this film is a sequel to the 1932 mystery classic Arséne Lupin, starring John Barrymore as Lupin, the "prince of thieves," and his brother Lionel as the detective with whom he matches wits. In the sequel William is an American FBI agent turned insurance investigator on the trail of Lupin (now played by Melvyn Douglas), who is living under an assumed name after being presumed dead.

With his air of smart sophistication and roguish charm, William – whose resemblance to John Barrymore had often been commented upon – might just as easily have played the thief. Later he would play The Lone Wolf , a domestic variation on the Lupin character, in a Columbia Pictures series that ran in the late 1930s and '40s. As it happened, Douglas had done time at the same studio as the same character in The Lone Wolf Returns (1935).

Even though William is third-billed after Douglas and leading lady Virginia Bruce, Arséne Lupin Returns gives him one of his better roles of the period. He expertly duels with Douglas in a plot involving the attempted theft of a precious emerald necklace belonging to Bruce as wealthy society woman Lorraine de Grissac. Naturally, both men end up in romantic pursuit of the beautiful Lorraine.

Handsomely produced for the "B" production it is, Arséne Lupin Returns has a solid supporting cast including Monty Woolley, George Zucco, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, E.E. Clive and Vladimir Sokoloff. The director is George Fitzmaurice, with whom William had shared the experience of being dismissed from the 1934 film Nana after producer Samuel Goldwyn decided to scrap his original production of the Anna Sten vehicle and start over. (The two may have found some satisfaction in the fact that the reworked movie was a huge flop, and Sten never realized Goldwyn's vision of her as the "next Garbo.")

Reviewing Arséne Lupin Returns in The New York Times upon its original release, Frank S. Nugent wrote that, "As a combination whodunit and who-got-the-jools, it is fairer than most in its presentation of clues, and more fortunate than most in its cast… Mr. William, of course, remains Mr. William, with his sideburns, brisk stride and long, equine jaw."
~ Roger Fristoe

IMDb

Arsene Lupin (1932) + Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)


Extras:
- Theatrical Trailer