Dressed to Kill (1928 film)

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Dressed to Kill
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Lobby card
Directed by Irving Cummings
Written byMalcolm Stuart Boylan
Produced by William Fox
Starring Mary Astor
Cinematography Conrad Wells
Edited by Frank E. Hull
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • March 18, 1928 (1928-03-18)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Dressed to Kill is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring Mary Astor and Edmund Lowe. Astor was on loan from Warner Bros., for the film. [1]

Contents

Samuel L. Rothafel selected the film for the feature for the first anniversary of the New York City Roxy Theatre.

Plot

The full film

The gang of a mob boss grow suspicious of his new girlfriend. She is a beautiful young woman, and they do not believe she would actually associate with the mob and wonder if she is really a police "plant". The mobsters dress nattily so as not to appear "out of place" in the ritzy neighborhoods prior to a heist.

Cast

Preservation

This is a surviving film at the Museum of Modern Art. [2]

Response

The New York Times review stated - "Edmund Lowe is capital as the well-tailored Barry. Mr. Barry likes a good round of golf on the day following a fruitful burglary. Mary Astor is charming as Jean, and R. O. Pennell makes the most of the "Professor's" rôle.".

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