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Brass Knuckles (1927)

Brass Knuckles poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
drama film, silent film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 08m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former boxer gets mixed up with criminals. He uses his fists to survive in a dangerous urban world.

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What happens

Brass Knuckles is a surviving 1927 American synchronized sound crime film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue, Betty Bronson, and William Russell. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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