The Duke Steps Out (1929)
Greatest Fight Story In History
62 min
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.
- Release date
- March 19, 1929
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- William Haines as Duke Corbin
- Joan Crawford as Susie
- Karl Dane as Barney, Duke's Chauffeur
- Tenen Holtz as Jake, Duke's Manager
- Edward J. Nugent as Tommy Wells
- Jack Roper as Poison Kerrigan
- Delmer Daves as Bossy Edwards
- Luke Cosgrave as Prof. Widdicomb
- Herbert Prior as Mr. Corbin
- Gwen Lee as College Girl
Crew
- James Cruze · Director
- Falkland L. Cary · Writer
- Dale Van Every · Writer
- Raymond L. Schrock · Writer
- Joseph Farnham · Writer
- James Cruze · Producer
- Ira H. Morgan · Cinematographer
- George Hively · Editor