Crooks Can't Win is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by George M. Arthur and starring Ralph Lewis, Thelma Hill and Joe E. Brown.[1]
| Crooks Can't Win | |
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| Directed by | George M. Arthur |
| Written by | Randolph Bartlett Enid Hibbard Joseph Jefferson O'Neil |
| Starring | Ralph Lewis Thelma Hill Joe E. Brown |
| Cinematography | Robert Martin |
| Edited by | George M. Arthur |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Film Booking Offices of America Ideal Films (UK) |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Synopsis
editA police officer is kicked off the force when his superior wrongly believes that he is complicit in a robbery committed by a gang his brother is involved with. With the assistance of a crime reporter, he sets out to round up the gang of thieves and clear his name.
Cast
edit- Ralph Lewis as Dad Gillen
- Thelma Hill as Mary Gillen
- Sam Nelson as Danny Malone
- Joe E. Brown as Jimmy Wells
- Eugene Strong as Alfred Dayton Jr
- Charlie Hall as 'Bull' Savage
References
edit- ^ Gehring p.38
Bibliography
edit- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Gehring, Wes D. Joe E. Brown: Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon. McFarland, 2014.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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