The Duke Steps Out

Greatest Fight Story In History

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

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