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.[1]
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.[2]
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
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
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