Light Fingers
"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.
"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.
Ian Keith
Light Fingers
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Madison
Carroll Nye
Donald Madison
Ralph Theodore
Kerrigan
Tom Ricketts
Edward Madison
Charles K. Gerrard
London Tower
Pietro Sosso
Butler
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
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