Harry "Heliotrope Harry" Melton
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A Gentleman After Dark is a 1942 crime/drama film starring Brian Donlevy and Miriam Hopkins. [1] Plot. We pick up the story when the editor of the New York Chronicle sits on New Year's Eve 1923 awaiting news on the theft of legendary Mrs. Reginald Thorndyke's jewelry, a bracelet worth about $50,000.
A Gentleman After Dark: Directed by Edwin L. Marin. With Brian Donlevy, Miriam Hopkins, Preston Foster, Harold Huber. A greedy woman turns in her husband, a jewel thief, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own.
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Edwin L. Marin
- 1942-04-16
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A greedy woman turns in her husband, a jewel thief, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now attempting to blackmail their daughter.
A suave jewel thief (Brian Donlevy) escapes from prison to save his daughter from his no-good wife (Miriam Hopkins).
- Crime, Drama
- Edwin L. Marin
- Dennis Schwartz
- Brian Donlevy
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newspaper is anxiously awaiting word on the sensational theft of Mrs. Reginald Thorndyke's $50,000 bracelet. At the same time, Captain Tom Gaynor of the Detective Bureau discovers that the jewel thief is the notorious "Heliotrope" Harry Melton, known as such because of the heliotrope flowers he always wears in his lapel.
