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Dressed to Kill
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6566 feet
Directed by Irving Cummings

Cast: Edmund Lowe [‘Mile-Away’ Barry], Mary Astor [Jeanne], Ben Bard [Nick], Bob Perry (Robert Perry) [‘Ritzy’ Hogan], Joe Brown [himself], Tom Dugan [‘Silky’ Levine], John Kelly [Biff Simpson], Robert Emmett O’Connor [Detective Gilroy], Richard O. Penell [‘Professor’], Edward Brady [‘Singing Walter’], Charles Morton [Jeanne’s sweetheart]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Howard Estabrook, from a screen story by William M. Conselman and Irving Cummings. Assistant director, Charles Woolstenhulme. Cinematography by Conrad Wells. Film editor, Frank Hull (Frank E. Hull). Intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by William Fox. / © 13 March 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25058]. Released 18 March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Crime.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.1441.

Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Bank officers - Bonds - Crime: Murder, Theft - Criminals: Gangs, Gangsters - Death: Murder - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - Paroles

Listing updated: 3 October 2014.

References: AFI-F2 n. F2.1441; Bardèche-History p. 299; Bondanella-Hollywood p. 181; Parish-Gangster pp. 2, 126-127 : ClasIm-302 pp. 6-7, 12 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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