The Duke Steps Out

Greatest Fight Story In History

The Duke Steps Out — Plot

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
• Runtime
• 62 min
• Genres
• Drama, Comedy
• Director
• James Cruze

The Duke Steps Out — 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

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Jack Roper Poison Kerrigan