Dressed to Kill is a 1928 silent drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring Mary Astor and Edmund Lowe. Astor was on loan from Warner Bros., for the film.Dressed to Killed at silentera.com
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 is a beautiful young woman, and they do not believe she would actually associate with the mob and wonder if she is really a police "plant". The mobsters dress nattily so as not to 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 Hogan 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.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database:Dressed to Kill
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
allmovie.com