The Duke Steps Out

The Duke Steps Out

Greatest Fight Story In History

NR 1929 · 62 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Comedy

Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie likes him but, to get rid of her, his manager tells her Duke already has a New York chorus girl. As the students listen to a radio broadcast of his victorious fight from San Francisco, she learns that the student Duke is the boxer Duke and that there is no chorus girl.

Directed by James Cruze · Written by Falkland L. Cary

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Cast

William Haines Duke
Joan Crawford Susie
Delmer Daves Bossy Edwards
Tenen Holtz Jake, Duke's manager
Edward Nugent Tommy Welles
Karl Dane Barney, Duke's chauffeur
Luke Cosgrave Prof. Widdicombe
Jack Roper Poison Kerrigan
Herbert Prior Mr. Corbin

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