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Partners in Crime
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6600 feet
Directed by Frank Strayer

Cast: Wallace Beery [Mike Doolan, the detective], Raymond Hatton [‘Scoop’ McGee, the reporter; and ‘Knife’ Reagan, terror of the underworld], Mary Brian [Marie Burke, the cigarette girl], William Powell [Smith], Jack Luden [Richard Deming, assistant district attorney, Arthur Housman [Barton], Albert Roccardi [Kanelli, the restaurant owner], Joseph W. Girard [the chief of police], George Irving [B.R. Cornwall], Bruce Gordon [Dodo], Jack Richardson [Jake]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Grover Jones and Gilbert Pratt, from a screen story by Grover Jones and Gilbert Pratt. Cinematography by William Marshall. Film editor, William Shea. Intertitles written by George Marion Jr. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 17 March 1928 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP25085]. Released 17 March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Powell’s 31st film. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama: Crime.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 August 2012.

References: Quirk-Powell pp. 19, 85-86; Sweeney-Coming p. 125 : Website-AFI.