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Crooks Can't Win
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Wikipedia article
'Crooks Can't Win' is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by George M. Arthur and starring Ralph Lewis, Thelma Hill and Joe E. Brown.Gehring p.38
Synopsis
A police officer is kicked off the force when his superior wrongly believes that he is complicit in a robbery committed by a gang his brother is involved with. With the assistance of a crime reporter, he sets out to round up the gang of thieves and clear his name.
Cast
* Ralph Lewis as Dad Gillen
* Thelma Hill as Mary Gillen
* Sam Nelson as Danny Malone
* Joe E. Brown as Jimmy Wells
* Eugene Strong as Alfred Dayton Jr
* Charlie Hall as 'Bull' Savage
References
Bibliography
* Connelly, Robert B. 'The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2'. December Press, 1998.
* Gehring, Wes D. 'Joe E. Brown: Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon'. McFarland, 2014.
* Munden, Kenneth White. 'The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1'. University of California Press, 1997.
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