Raffles is a 1939 American English-language Adventure Comedy movie featuring David Niven, Olivia De Havilland, May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton, E.e. Clive and Eric Wilton. The movie is inspired from The Amateur Cracksman 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting.. Samuel Goldwyn Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Samuel Goldwyn. Raffles is written by John Van Druten, Sidney Howard, E.w. Hornung and F. Scott Fitzgerald and it is directed by Sam Wood. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The movie has a running time of 72 minutes. Cinematography was done by Gregg Toland and editing by Sherman Todd. The music was composed by Victor Young.