High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raffles is a 1930 film starring Ronald Colman as the popular title character, a gentleman who is also secretly a notorious jewel thief. Kay Francis plays the woman with whom Raffles falls in love. It is based on the 1906 play Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which was in turn adapted from the 1899 novel of the same name by Hornung. Oscar Lagerstrom was nominated for a Academy Award for Sound, Recording. Another Raffles film was made in 1939 starring David Niven in the title role. It was branded a loose remake of the 1930 film.