The Duke Steps Out

Mar 19, 1929

1h 2m

★ 5.0

Greatest Fight Story In History

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Duke

William Haines

Susie

Joan Crawford

Bossy Edwards

Delmer Daves

Jake, Duke's manager

Tenen Holtz

Tommy Welles

Edward Nugent

Barney, Duke's chauffeur

Karl Dane

Prof. Widdicombe

Luke Cosgrave

Poison Kerrigan

Jack Roper

Mr. Corbin

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