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Dressed to Kill (1928 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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 loaned from Warner Bros., for the film.
Samuel L. Rothafel selected the film for the feature for the first anniversary of the New York City Roxy Theatre.
Plot
The gang of a mob boss grow suspicious of his new girlfriend. She's a beautiful young girl and they don't believe she would actually associate with the mob and wonder if she's really a police "plant". The mobsters dress nattily to not appear "out of place" in the ritzy neighborhoods prior to a heist.
Cast
* Edmund Lowe - Mile-Away Barry
* Mary Astor - Jeanne
* Ben Bard - Nick
* Bob Perry - Ritzy Logan7
* Joe Brown - as himself
* Tom Dugan - Silky Levine
* John Kelly - Biff Simpson
* Robert Emmett O'Connor - Detective Gilroy
* R. O. Pennell - Professor
* Ed Brady - singing waiter
* Charles Morton - Jeanne's sweetheart
* Harry Dunkinson - uncredited
* Florence Wix - dressmaker (uncredited)
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" rle.".
References
*[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=980DE7D6133CE33ABC4A52DFB5668383639EDE "New York Times" review March 12, 1928]
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