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Dressed to Kill is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irving Cummings released in USA on 17 march 1928 with Mary Astor

Dressed to Kill (1928)

Dressed to Kill
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Released in USA 17 march 1928
Length 1h10
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Crime
Rating66% 3.3103953.3103953.3103953.3103953.310395

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. 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.".

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

Synopsis

The gang of a mob boss get suspicious his new girlfriend. Because she's a beautiful young girl 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.

Actors

Mary Astor

(Jeanne)Edmund Lowe

(Mile-Away Barry)Ben Bard

(Nick)Tom Dugan

(Silky Levine)Bob Perry

(Ritzy Hogan)
And :
Robert Emmett O'Connor
John Kelly
Charles Morton
Ed Brady
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