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Dressed to Kill
(1928) American
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 story by William M. Conselman and Irving Cummings. Assistant director Charles Woolstenhulme. Cinematography by Conrad Wells. Intertitles by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Edited by Frank Hull (Frank E. Hull). Presented by William Fox. / © 13 March 1928 [LP25058]. Released 18 March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 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.

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

Listing updated: 1 August 2006.

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

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