The Duke Steps Out

The Duke Steps Out

62 mins | Drama, Comedy | March 19, 1929

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.

The Duke Steps Out

62 mins | Drama, Comedy | March 19, 1929

The Duke Steps Out
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.
IMDb rating 3.2
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title The Duke Steps Out
Directors James Cruze
Writers Falkland L. Cary

Cast

William Haines

as Duke

Joan Crawford

as Susie

Delmer Daves

as Bossy Edwards

Tenen Holtz

as Jake, Duke's manager

Edward Nugent

as Tommy Welles

Karl Dane

as Barney, Duke's chauffeur

Luke Cosgrave

as Prof. Widdicombe

Jack Roper

as Poison Kerrigan

Herbert Prior

as Mr. Corbin