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The Duke Steps Out
“Greatest Fight Story In History”
6.5 / 10• 1929• 1h 2m•NR• English
DramaComedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
William Haines
Duke
Lead
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
JR
Jack Roper
Poison Kerrigan
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. James Cruze's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Duke Steps Out is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
