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For the Love of Mike is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Capra released in USA on 31 july 1927 with Ben Lyon

For the Love of Mike (1927)

For the Love of Mike
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Released in USA 31 july 1927
Length 1h15
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating50% 2.5240952.5240952.5240952.5240952.524095

For the Love of Mike (originally titled Hell's Kitchen) is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film. Directed by Frank Capra, it starred Claudette Colbert (in her film debut) and Ben Lyon. It is now considered to be a lost film.

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A baby boy is found abandoned in a Hell's Kitchen tenement and subsequently is raised by three men: a German delicatessen owner (Sterling), a Jewish tailor (Sidney), and an Irish street cleaner (Cameron). They adopt the boy and raise him as their own. The timeline jumps 20 years into their future. The now-grown Mike (Lyon) resists going to college because he does not wish to be a financial burden to his adoptive fathers, however a pretty Italian girl, Mary (Colbert) working at the delicatessen convinces him to go.

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