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Crooks Can't Win is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by George M. Arthur and starring Ralph Lewis, Thelma Hill and Joe E. Brown.[1]

Crooks Can't Win
Directed by	George M. Arthur
Written by	Randolph Bartlett Enid Hibbard Joseph Jefferson O'Neil
Starring	Ralph Lewis Thelma Hill Joe E. Brown
Cinematography	Robert Martin
Edited by	George M. Arthur
Production company	Film Booking Offices of America
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America Ideal Films (UK)
Release date	April 7, 1928
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

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 as Danny Malone
• Joe E. Brown as Jimmy Wells
• Eugene Strong 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

• Crooks Can't Win at IMDb

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