- Source: Dressed to Kill (1928 film)
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)
Preservation
This is a surviving film at the Museum of Modern Art.
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.".
See also
The Big City(1928)
The Racket(1928)
References
"New York Times" review March 12, 1928
External links
Dressed to Kill at IMDb
allmovie.com
Dressed to Kill at the TCM Movie Database
Dressed to Kill at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Tom Dugan (pemeran, kelahiran 1889)
- Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Edmund Breon
- Harry Dunkinson
- Wilson Benge
- Irving Cummings
- Audrey Hepburn
- Olaf Hytten
- Jack Kevorkian
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dressed to Kill (1928 film)
- Dressed to Kill
- The Racket (1928 film)
- The Proposition (2005 film)
- Mickey Mouse (film series)
- Eugene Forde
- The Cossacks (1928 film)
- The Big City (1928 film)
- 2024 in film
- Mary Astor filmography
