''Crooks Can't Win'' is a 1928 American silent

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directed by George M. Arthur and starring Ralph Lewis, Thelma Hill and

Joe E. Brown Joseph Evans Brown (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973) was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his friendly screen persona, comic timing, and enormous elastic-mouth smile. He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 19 ...

.Gehring p.38

Synopsis

A police officer is kicked off the force when his superior wrongly believes that he is complicit in a robbery committed by a gang his brother is involved with. With the assistance of a crime reporter, he sets out to round up the gang of thieves and clear his name.

Cast

* Ralph Lewis as Dad Gillen * Thelma Hill as Mary Gillen *

Sam Nelson Sam Nelson (1896-1963) was a director who worked from the end of the silent through the early 1960s. While most of his film work was in the assistant director role, he did direct over 20 films during the 1930s and 1940s, all of which were western ...

as Danny Malone *

as Jimmy Wells *

Eugene Strong Eugene Strong (August 9, 1893 – June 25, 1962) was an American film actor and vaudevillian. Career Eugene Strong oscillated between stage and film work throughout his acting career. He played the lead role in the stage production of ' ...

as Alfred Dayton Jr * Charlie Hall as 'Bull' Savage

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Gehring, Wes D. ''Joe E. Brown: Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon''. McFarland, 2014. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

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