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Dressed to Kill
Dressed to Kill
Directed by	Irving Cummings
Written by	Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Produced by	William Fox
Starring	Mary Astor
Cinematography	Conrad Wells
Edited by	Frank E. Hull
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	March 18, 1928;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

This is a surviving film at the Museum of Modern Art.^[2]

Response edit

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.".